Volume C Section 58 Sense of Presence (Supplement)
When she arrived in the small courtyard where Chai Ke was, Feng Ziying only felt that the entire courtyard was a busy scene.
The largest room was obviously used as a temporary public house, and the map was hung up, Geng Ruqi and the other two military department directors plus a hundred households of the Long Ban Lieutenant were already in the house, and there was also a military general who should have rushed over from Yulin.
Chai Ke and Yang He were already in the house, and the military general who had rushed over from Yulin was introducing the situation in Yulin Town to the two.
"......, Sanshanbao and Sanshankou are under control, but the rebels are strong, and the 3,000 troops of the Dingbian battalion in the north have been pressed on it, and there have been two battles, each with damage,......"
"......, there are already Tatar cavalry outside Gou Chi, it should be reinforcements invited by the Yi family,......
"The Commander-in-Chief is now waiting for the Governor and the Right Governor Yushi in Yulin City, and the Tatars outside the border wall are very active at present, and the 20,000 people originally drawn out of the middle line have to temporarily stay on the line from Yongji Fort to Zhenjing Fort for the time being, but the grain and grass have arrived at Pingqiang Fort and Xiamaguan Fort, and the grain and grass stored in these two places are enough to support our army for two months."
Feng Ziying and Zheng Chongjian entered the house, and they took the initiative to shrink in the corner, listening to the general's introduction.
Daddy's actions are still a little too cautious, but who made him a general?
If it is replaced by Chai Ke, he can launch an attack on the front line of Tianshui Fort, first give the rebels who have not yet gained a stable foothold to deal a head-on blow, replace the defense with offense, and suppress the offensive momentum of the rebels, of course, this may directly enter the territory of Ningxia Town, which is a bit of a cross line for Feng Tang, the general soldier of Yulin Town.
Civilian officials don't matter, but military generals are better off not committing such taboos.
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"Ziying, Dazhang, you also have to learn to be familiar with the military situation every day, Lord Zhang and several colleagues from the military department who came from Yulin have already made an introduction to the current situation, but the situation in Gansu Town is still unclear, only know that Zhenfanwei has completely fallen into the hands of the rebels as early as ten days ago, Yongchangwei was besieged by the rebels three days ago, but the final result is not yet clear, and the most important Gulangsuo and Surabaya Fort in the south of Liangzhou Wei have been captured by the rebels, Zhenqiang Fort and Tianzhu have been taken by the rebels, and Wushengyi has not been captured so far, But it is estimated that it will last less than a few days,......"
Geng Ruqi was very patient like two juniors who might become colleagues in the future, both of whom were students from Qingtan Academy, and of course he had to help if he could.
Chai Ke held his forehead a little tiredly, now he was rushing during the day every day, studying the military situation at the lodging at night, and expressing his opinions, but the captain had more wrecked ships, and all kinds of arguments and opinions made him dizzy.
Feng Ziying was full of interest, and finally could actually get in touch with military affairs, although it was still in the initial stage, but at least there was such an opportunity to have the most intuitive and in-depth understanding.
"Lord Zhang, I want to ask, Yulin Town should also have some understanding of the situation in Ningxia Wei in the early stage, the rebel offensive is in full swing, which is expected by the imperial court, after all, they are rebelling, if they don't make a little stance, can they just sit and wait for the imperial army to come and destroy them?"
Feng Ziying looked very natural, without the slightest restlessness.
"Feng Langjun, our town does have some sources of letters, but there are not many, after all, Ningxia Wei and we belong to two families." Knowing that this person was the son-in-law of the chief military officer, Zhang Han politely hugged his fists: "But since the Ningxia Rebellion, we have also excluded all kinds of personnel from Ningxiawei, and the letters and newspapers we currently have are basically from them,......"
"Then I just ask, how much grain and grass were secretly intercepted and hidden by the rebels, including the rebels, including the earliest Ningxia Town itself, and how long was enough for them?"
As soon as Feng Ziying opened her mouth, the entire room was shocked.
Go straight to the point, grain and grass, there are a lot of rebels, and when you start a war, you must first talk about grain and grass, and silver is still second, after all, even if you have silver at this time, you may not be able to buy grain and forage.
Chai Ke and Yang He couldn't help but raise their eyebrows, Feng Tang's son really followed him, and he knew something about military affairs, in a word.
Zhang Han was also taken aback, took a serious look at the young man, and hesitated: "Feng Langjun, I'm afraid that there is no way to make an accurate judgment on this, the grain supply situation in Ningxia Town itself should be clearer, but I'm afraid it won't be stronger than our Yulin Town, basically it is transported and replenished every two months, and according to the convention, it should be ,......replenished in March."
"Don't you know anything about Bibai and Liu Dongyang?" Feng Ziying knew what the other party was cautious about, but she couldn't take care of it much at this time.
Zhang Han hesitated, but under the insistence of the other party's gaze, he said a little reluctantly: "We still know something, he has always been arrogant, and the Tatars eyebrows, his son Bi Chengen is the deputy commander-in-chief, with 10,000 main forces, of which 3,000 cangtou troops are elite, and the other son, Bi Chengzhong and Yizi Biyun, each has 5,000 troops, each of which has 1,000 elite troops, judging from the grain and forage, it should be no problem to support it until May, and the situation of Liu Dongyang and Tu Wenxiu and others is not something we can control,...... ”
If it is said that the spying on Bibai and the others, you can barely use the non-our race to make Yulin Town a little vigilant to spy on the news, but when Liu Dongyang and others have not yet rebelled, you spy on the military situation of the neighboring town, which is a little incredible.
Chai Ke and Yang He didn't have the heart to think about these things at all, the control and combat effectiveness shown by the rebels had already made them anxious, but Feng Ziying's reminder made them aware of the weakness of the rebels - the supply of grain and grass.
Border towns like Ningxia, which basically rely entirely on the outside to transport grain supplies, will collapse if they are trapped in one town, as long as there is enough time.
But the problem is that the imperial court can't do this, Yulin Town can be blocked, but what about Gansu Town, Guyuan Town?
And the imperial court also needs to think clearly, if once the rebels are desperate in the end, the entire Ningxia town and even Gansu town will be turned into a blank land, then what will the imperial court do?
If the imperial court has money and food, it is easy to do anything, and if there is no money and no food, it will not dare to sit back and watch Ningxia Town and Gansu Town become white land, otherwise either the imperial court can only abandon these two towns and retreat to Guyuan and Yulin, and let these two places become pastures and hunting grounds for the Tatars and Mughal people, or it will have to invest heavily in the reconstruction of the two towns, which is not acceptable to the imperial court.
It can be said that this is also the main reason why Chai Ke and Yang He rushed overnight to promote the assembly of the army as soon as possible and plan the offensive, because they knew that the rebels could not afford to delay, but the imperial court could not afford to delay either.
But what Feng Ziying wanted to remind them was that although the imperial court couldn't afford it, I was afraid that the rebels couldn't afford it even more than they imagined.
"Ziying, what do you want to say?"
"Master Chai, the student wants to say that neither the rebels themselves nor the Tatars on the Hetao can have extra grain and grass for them to support, although they seem to be attacking fiercely now, in fact, we will bite one, Guyuan and Gansu side to resist it, if it is really unbearable, we must also do as much as possible to clear the wilderness, do not leave anything for the rebels, Yulin Town, if the army gathers, you can calmly launch the offensive,......"
The military discussion can only be said to be this part for Feng Ziying, there is not enough intelligence to support it, and it will be exposed.
However, judging from the current situation, Da Zhou at least maintained a basic intelligence network in the border areas, but after a long period of peace and insufficient food and salary, there has been a considerable contraction.
Any matter is inseparable from the support of money and food, this sentence is really true.
For example, the nine-sided towns actually have their own personnel who are in charge of spying on intelligence at night, sharp sentry, and special affairs, among which the most famous is naturally responsible for spying on the situation of the Tatar army outside the country, the political situation and social situation of the night non-collection, while the sharp sentry is a specific person who is in charge of spying on enemy chieftains and dignitaries, and the detective is the personnel of Weizhen who is specially responsible for the social situation in its own jurisdiction, so it can be said that the intelligence system of the entire border army is quite complete.
However, with the shortage of food and wages, and the large-scale flight of soldiers in various towns, these forces will naturally be abolished to varying degrees.
The role of the military praise painting is to put forward his own suggestions, whether they are adopted by the coach, that is the coach's business, and even new tenders like Feng Ziying and Zheng Chongjian, who can let you say a few words on the occasion, it is already considered that the coach appreciates you very much, if you don't know how to advance or retreat, that is, you don't know the current affairs.
So after Feng Ziying finished speaking, she knew the rules and kept silent.
Reminding the coach of the importance and criticality of logistics supplies to himself and the rebels, Feng Ziying believed that Chai Ke knew how to deal with it.
On February 19, the group finally arrived at the Yulin Acropolis.
Feng Tang greeted Chai Ke and Yang He outside the city, and Feng Ziying finally saw her father after a two-year absence.
This was followed by a simple welcome ceremony, but before the ceremony was over, bad news was received, Sunantai Ji was once again on the border, this time on the line of Gushan Fort and Yongxing Fort, but the Tatars did not take much advantage.
However, Sunangtaiji's army began to gradually move westward, which still put a lot of pressure on Yulin Town.
After Shanxi Town was attacked, Wang Ziteng had already written to the imperial court, and the 10,000 troops in Shanxi Town were temporarily withdrawn, which also made Chai Ke extremely angry.
But as the governor of Xuanda, Wang Ziteng has the right to mobilize the troops within his own jurisdiction, especially in the case of the capture of Luoquanbao, the imperial court does not dare to let go easily, once the Tatars enter Shanxi Town, it will be the shock of the Jingshi, and even the cabinet will not dare to assume this responsibility.
Now is obviously the time to transfer the main force of Yulin Town to quell the rebellion, which will test the current pressure situation of Yulin Town.