Jinghua's "professional title system" is divided into armed professional title system and unarmed professional title system. The latter does not need to be described in detail for the time being. The former is actually a changed name of the military rank system.
Military rank is a title and symbol that distinguishes the rank of an officer. Of course, armed professional titles also have the same attributes. However, it is obvious that Gao Pragmatic will not use words such as general and colonel to describe his armed servants, so he directly uses A, B, C and Ding are used to replace generals, colonels, lieutenants, and soldiers, while the first-level privates are replaced by "new Ding".
As a result, servants such as Gao Jue and others who are currently awarded the highest armed professional title are "Class A, second class", which is equivalent to the rank of lieutenant general, while Luo Yuan, commander of the Japanese Kanto Squadron of Jinghua, is "Class B, first class" , equivalent to a colonel.
Although Jinghua's armed forces have been divided into two systems: land and sea, there is no distinction yet in terms of military ranks or armed titles, that is, there is no distinction between army titles and naval titles for the time being.
Gao Pragmatic also considered whether it would be necessary to add intermediate ranks such as brigadier general and senior colonel in the future, or add general, marshal and other ranks above general, but that was a story for another day. Although Jinghua's strength is not weak at the moment, after all, the sum total of all parties is only a few hundred thousand, and it seems that it has not yet reached the point where it needs to add layers.
When he was thinking about this problem at that time, he also remembered a famous scene in "Yes, Minister", which basically said that we only have a few capital ships, but there are dozens of admirals. Gao Pragmatic laughed dumbly, and then gave up the idea.
At the moment, among the three batches of cavalry from three different divisions in Daning City, the one with the highest armed professional title is a "Class B, Second Class" servant leader from the Tumut Division, which is equivalent to a lieutenant colonel, which is already considered relatively high. The "military rank".
This lieutenant colonel (described by military rank for convenience) is only in his thirties. He is the son of the Gao family with a well-established family background. He is somewhat related to Gao Rui, the director of the Kaiping Industrial Zone Management Committee. They are from the same ancestry in terms of blood. But five servers have been released.
He has been working hard in the cavalry since he entered the armed servant system. He worked in Henan, Shanxi, and Beizhili. Later, he was transferred to the Tumut Division and was the third column of the Beijing Tumut Division's escort cavalry corps. The column captain.
The third column was originally responsible for the escort mission in the eastern part of Tumut, with a full strength of 4,038 people, equivalent to an alliance. He currently only has 2,863 cavalry on hand because some of them are on mission and are not on duty in the city.
The current combined strength of the three parties is about 6,400, which is less than the strength of four alliances, that is, slightly less than two towns (equivalent to a division). However, Jinghua has always relied on its well-equipped equipment and high treatment, and nearly four alliances have The troops are already very powerful in their own opinion.
Since they often perform escort missions on the grasslands, they spend a lot of time dealing with the Mongols and have a good understanding of the Mongols' war readiness. In their view, most of the Mongolian army is not a standing army, but a temporary levy army that relies on its own living environment to give its soldiers natural combat capabilities.
From their understanding, the advantage of the Mongolian cavalry is that there is no need for special training in equestrianism, and the same goes for archery. Some troops such as the "Khan Court Guards" are considered standing armies. In addition to equestrianism and archery, these people are better than Usually the Mongolian soldiers are strong in their saber skills, because this requires training to master proficiently.
This is also the reason why the Mongolian cavalry after the glorious period has become less and less engaged in battles: fewer and fewer warriors have superb saber skills. Coupled with the decline of Mongolian strength, the ability to withstand losses has dropped significantly, and sabers are used in close combat. Of course not a good idea. Unless the opponent has been defeated, the Mongols rarely charge into battle and will mostly rely on mounted shooting to win.
However, in the thirty years of Hedong and the thirty years of Hexi, the Ming army made a name for itself in the Battle of Monan, and with the support of the Battle of Southern Liaoning and the Battle of Northern Liaoning, not only did it rarely suffer defeats, it even found a way to The bayonet array used to control cavalry caused the Mongols to use charging arrays in previous wars, causing a lot of losses.
The lieutenant colonel's name was Gao Jiang. Since he was the Cavalry leader of the Tumut Division in charge of the eastern region, he would certainly pay attention to Chahar, which is adjacent to it. According to his understanding, the Chahar cavalry seems to have been heavily armored in recent years. A typical example is that the proportion of heavily armored troops in the Khan Court is increasing.
In most people's minds, the Mongolian cavalry seems to have always been mainly light cavalry. Even if there are heavy cavalry, they only account for a small part, maybe even a very small part. Now they are starting to be heavily armored?
In fact, this statement is somewhat of a stereotype. It is not so strange for the Mongolian cavalry to be heavily armored. It existed in its heyday. Although the early Mongolians had iron smelting technology, they lacked iron tools because iron resources were very scarce in the Mongolian grasslands at that time.
In the early days, the Mongols used mackerel skin to make armor that could withstand stray arrows. It was not until the Jin Kingdom ruled Hedong that iron money gradually flowed into Mongolia, and the iron resources were replenished. The early Mongols continued the tradition of the nomadic peoples of the past dynasties and already had the habit of fighting with armor. In "Yuan Shi·Taizu Ji", Monalun was worried that his sons would not be able to defeat the enemy without armor.
According to Jamukha in "The Secret History of Mongolia", during the period when Temujin unified Mongolia, warriors were already wearing battle armor and carrying spears, ring knives and bows and arrows. In fact, throughout ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, any nation that is good at cavalry will definitely be heavily armed as long as they have the opportunity to obtain sufficient resources.
In the process of fighting against the Jin Kingdom, Xixia, and Southern Song Dynasty, after possessing a large amount of iron and other metal resources and various craftsmen, the Mongolian weapons and military uniforms were gradually upgraded. Their leather armor was upgraded to iron armor, and they had armor, helmets, Shield a complete set of defenders. According to Archer Jones, the Mongols had a cavalry force very similar to the Parthians, about three-fifths of which were light cavalry with spare bows and three quivers of arrows and at least one spare horse, while the remaining Two-fifths of them are heavy cavalry.
The Mongolian heavy cavalry had basically taken shape during the Jin Dynasty. Yelu Tuhua defeated the Jin army in Dashengdian, Genghis Khan in Yehuling, and Ketai in Zaohe. They defeated the Jin army with fewer enemies and more enemies, forcing the Jin Kingdom to develop Huamao. New arms such as the Army and the Zhongxiao Army. In the Battle of Yehuling and the Battle of Mogukou at the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, there are also records of the Mongolian army using heavy cavalry with spears to charge into the formation.
The Chronicle of Galicia-Warren, describing a group of soldiers of Daniel Galitsky under the entry of 1252, writes: "The Germans were surprised by the weapons of the Tatars: the horses wore iron masks and were covered with leather guards. A, this team must have a high status in the army because their weapons are shining."
Although Lubruk, who met Mongke Khan, said that only two of the 20 Mongolians who accompanied him were wearing armor, this was only a case of traveling during peacetime. According to first-hand historical data from the early 13th century, Nasawi's "Zalandin" According to the "Biography", when Nasa was captured, "all the Tatars put on armor and rushed into the fortress at night."
Perhaps it is because Tumen Khan, under the persuasion of Burihatu, has also carried out some Tumut-style sinicization reforms in Chahar in recent years, thus improving his financial resources. Gao Jiang noticed the Mongolian soldiers in Chahar The level of equipment has improved significantly compared to a few years ago. Two of the most significant changes are that the armor wearing rate and the equipment of horses' protective harness have been improved to a certain extent.
I don’t know if the Mongolians still miss the glory of the Genghis Khan period - well, this is almost certain. In short, after Gao Jiang tried his best to get some Mongolian armor and horse gear, he found that their styles were basically still the mainstream during the Genghis Khan period. Style is just adding some current "popular elements": either technology or materials.
Nowadays, Chahar's armor is still divided into two levels: iron armor and leather armor. The leather armor is divided into long and short, and the short armor has no shoulders. When the shawl is removed, it resembles a crotch armor and is connected with a belt at the shoulders; the long armor has a shawl, and the shawl is also covered with a leather collar.
In addition, they also use leather armor similar to leather vests, which has the advantage of being softer and lighter than metal armor, but of course less strong than iron armor. Mongolian leather armor is not simply made of leather, but has iron wire embedded in the middle of the leather armor. This thing was produced by Jinghua, but for some reason it found its way into Chahar.
The surface of the chest area of the leather armor is lined with silver wires and flower pieces to increase the strength of the leather armor (armor). The chain armor worn by Chahar generals was mostly made of iron wire and decorated with gold and silver to enhance the beauty of the armor. The iron ring armor is lined with six layers of thin cowhide, and the outer layer is mesh-like iron armor, with the armor plates connected like fish scales.
Gao Jiang had previously submitted a report, reminding the Jinghua Secretariat that Chahar's iron willow leaf armor and leather bow armor had become their main protective equipment, especially among the pro-Khan court troops.
In addition, there are cloth brocade armors, which are made of thick cloth or silk brocade as the armor surface, and iron armor is wrapped under the armor surface; some are not lined with iron armor, and are purely made of cloth, with multiple layers of brocade tightly sewn together. together.
According to the experiments of Gao Jiang and other servant leaders, it is difficult for arrows to penetrate the silk clothes of this kind of silk cloth and brocade armor. They will only insert the arrows and clothes into the wound. The medical staff only need to pull out the silk cloth and it will be done. Pull the arrow out of the wound.
The cloth face armor derived from the cloth brocade armor is another kind of light armor. The outside of the robe is decorated with metal armor bubbles and important parts are decorated with iron armor pieces. The robe is made of cloth and is a product of Jinghua. It is light, soft and comfortable to wear. After being decorated with metal studs, the added weight is limited, but the impact resistance is greatly enhanced.
Not only are the manufacturing processes of the above armors exactly the same as those of the current Ming Dynasty armors, they are also quite similar, with only slight differences in style. However, although Gao Jiang submitted a report at the time hoping that the Secretariat would pay attention to it, he also mentioned in the report that medium and close range lance shooting could penetrate the above armor, but it could not penetrate the "effective shooting distance" of the lance according to previous standards. "Just fire immediately - that may still result in failure to penetrate.
The people coming this time are all Chahar elites. Gao Jiang believes that their equipment should be better, so they need to find opportunities to attack at "medium distance", which means it is best to ambush.
Under the guidance of this idea, Gao Jiang led his cavalry to move southwest quickly after leaving the city, and then set up an ambush in an elm forest along the river - this place was really called elm forest in later generations, or to be precise, it was called elm forest. town.
The terrain here is actually not much different from the entire line along the river. The characteristic is that the terrain along the river is relatively gentle, but not far to the east of the river are rolling hills. If the enemy has not sent a large number of exploration horses to investigate in advance, hiding on the east side of the hills will basically It is impossible to be discovered by the enemy troops along the river to the west.
Not only is it a matter of vision, but another important factor is that there will be the sound of water flowing along the river. The sound of water flowing can mask many other sounds that may lead to exposure, making it very suitable for an ambush.
One night is neither short nor long. Not long after Takaebu's ambush on the east side of the hills was prepared, there were dots of firelight from far to near. There were not many torches, and they were mainly concentrated in the front. Gao Jiang guessed that this was the arrival of Tumote's defeated army.
The Mongols have superb equestrian skills. They do not need to light all the torches when marching at night. They only need to light some of the torches at the vanguard and the follow-up troops to follow. Therefore, Gao Jiang, who was secretly observing the enemy with his new binoculars, saw less than a hundred torches. .
A head servant with the rank of major in the Gyeonggi Division asked Gao Jiang if he wanted to send someone to inform the Tumut people. Gao Jiang vetoed it without thinking, saying: "It would be better for the Tumut people not to know, so that they can deceive the people behind." Chahar pursues troops. Besides, the Erdemutu Military Secretary is my disciple. Once we ambush Tumen and Burihatu, he will definitely respond reasonably."
The major in the Gyeonggi Division is actually a little suspicious of the second half of Gao Jiang's sentence, because although the master is powerful, this military secretary disciple may not be so. At least he suffered a huge defeat during the day, and he doesn't know how much he has learned from the master. ...Maybe I only learned a superficial lesson.
Obviously he did not understand the troubles faced by Erdemutu, such as Burihatu's focus on attacking his direct descendants, Butashli's refusal to cooperate when adding insult to injury, and the generals of various ministries "when friendly forces are in trouble, they remain motionless", etc. This is almost impossible in the current Beijing armed forces.
The characteristic of Jinghua has always been that it has a complete system. No one dares to do things such as "the friendly troops are in trouble and do not move like a mountain", because the result will most likely be a punishment worse than defeat in the post-war summary, but it is obvious that this system is used in Tumut does not exist. There are still many people with tribal thinking. How can they have such a big-picture view?
The bosses are not the same person. The soldiers under my command are my own strength. Why should I lose my own strength to save you? Will you make up for my loss?
Jinghua is different. What it implements is "iron camp and flowing soldiers". The generals need to be rotated regularly. The soldiers under his command all belong to the high pragmatic master. Any losses will be made up by the master himself. The generals only need to As long as you need to command operations, then the idea is of course different.
Although the Tumut Army was defeated, Gao Jiang took a quick look and felt that their overall strength was still there. It took him less than half an hour to drive all the way through the three-column ambush area.
Chahar's army arrived late. Its front army was at least three miles away from Tumote's rear army. However, the troops were well-organized and even carried several times more torches than Tumote's defeated army. At first glance, they were inspired by the day's victory. , completely unaware of the approaching danger.
After Chahar's former army passed and the Chinese army entered the ambush area, Gao Jiang raised his right hand and shouted: "All are available, attack!"
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