The Tumen Great Khan on the north bank began to "turn in", but the fried flower Taiji on the south bank couldn't turn in if he wanted to, and he fell into a bitter battle.

Since the landing site is the center of the Liaohe Bay, it is actually equivalent to a peninsula surrounded by water on three sides, and if you want to turn in, you can only continue to fight south, otherwise...... Unless he wants to go and meet the real chapter with the Jinghua gunboat in the Liao River.

This is obviously a way to feed Wang Ba, and of course he refuses to take it.

Therefore, at the first time when he found that both land and water were ambushed, Fried Flower Taiji wisely chose to directly penetrate the Ming army and rush out of the bay of a few words.

In theory, this is a very good decision, because there is nothing worse than that.

There is only one question in front of us, that is, the Ming army has spent so much effort to complete this half-crossing attack, how can they let the fried flower department break their encirclement as they wish?

When Gao Pragmatic judged that the Mongolian side planned to land in Hanjiawan, he said in front of the generals: "Tumen, the two thieves who fried flowers, will die this time." ”

Because encirclement on all sides is usually the most difficult, a team with no way to retreat, either surrender directly, or break the boat, and in the case of encirclement on all sides, if the other party launches a decisive breakthrough in one direction, the encircler will be unable to withstand it unless it has several times the strength of the enemy in a single direction, otherwise most of them will not be able to withstand it, and they will be broken and escaped, and they will suffer huge losses, which is why it is often mentioned in the book of war that there is a lack of three to encircle.

Give people a glimmer of life, so as not to fight to the death on the other side, and after the other party breaks through, it is not too late for their own side to slowly chase and kill.

But the Ming army fought with the Mongols, and it was not very reliable to encircle the three without one, because it was easy for you to let him go, but if you wanted to chase him down, it would be almost a dream, maybe only the original Ma Fang and the current Li Chengliang department could do it, even if it was not possible to be pragmatic at this moment, because he did not have many cavalry in his hands now.

But it would have been much easier to block the Mongols on a peninsula that was not too large.

Seal the lower part of the bay with heavy troops, and tighten the words into words, as long as the horizontal below is hard enough, the fried flowers can only be trapped to death.

So, did the Ming army have heavy troops?

Yes.

From the time I learned the news that Tumen and Fried Flowers Coalition were going south until now, more than half a month has passed before and after, which is also one of the main reasons why Tumen and Fried Flowers can't wait to cross south.

In this half a month, Gao Pragmatic staged a virtual and real drama in the Liaohe River to block the road for the Mongols to go south, and at the same time transferred troops in the rear to strengthen the standby near Hanjiawan, and finally even transferred Ma Dong and the 1,000 cavalry soldiers under his command that Ma Fang personally brought out back then, just to make this "heavy army" worthy of its name.

Gao Pragmatism has always been longer than strategy, asking himself if he is not a master of tactics, many of his operational ideas were learned from Mao Xuan, I don't know how many articles in that set of books were written by Hong Taizu to the front-line troops back then, among which Gao Pragmatism can learn superficially, he thinks the most convenient to use is the eight big characters: concentrate troops, first fight the weak enemy!

Why did Gao Pragmatic have to attack one and a half crossings, and then mainly destroy the landing part, and the order given to Ma Dong limited the troops of the landing part?

Because Gao Pragmatic thinks that it is meaningless to fight if there is too little, it doesn't hurt to fight the pictures and fried flowers, and if there are too many, I am afraid that I can't eat it, and if I don't do it, I will break my teeth.

Seven or eight thousand was the maximum he felt he could eat.

Because he mobilized five or six thousand soldiers near Hanjiawan, as well as about 20,000 guards!

In addition to the 200 people he left at the Sancha River wharf, the Gao family had a total of nearly 2,000 people, all of whom were sent to Hanjiawan, removing the 300 "amphibious troops" stationed in the Sancha River Water Village, and about 1,600 or so people were involved in this ambush and encirclement battle.

In addition, plus Ma Dong, Ma Chengen, and Zhang Wanbang's families, the total is nearly two thousand, and there are also Pu Yuanyi and other local generals at all levels in Liaodong, and there are also hundreds or dozens of family members, which is five or six thousand.

As for the guards, anyway, there are not many defensive tasks in southern Liaoning, and it is not difficult to just transfer manpower, and there are many reasons why the soldiers in southern Liaoning are not active in fighting, and the key is that the soldiers and horses in southern Liaoning are weak soldiers in eastern Liaoning because they are fighting fewer than in other regions, and they are generally not used as the main force when they are transferred, and they should not be used as the main force, and the natural salary, supplies, equipment, and treatment are very bad in all aspects.

However, because there were few wars in southern Liaoning, the economic situation was relatively slightly better than that of other parts of eastern Liaoning, so that the supplies and rewards were even less visible to the soldiers in southern Liaoning.

In later generations, a father Ma said that the main reason for not being able to keep people is basically that the money is not enough, and this truth is also the same in Liaodong at this time.

On weekdays, the four guards of southern Liaoning, who ignore the requisition, are very active in sending troops this time, not only because Gao Pragmatic has just taken Li Rugui, which has given the commanders a great deterrent, but also because Gao Pragmatic has a high price.

Send troops to draw out the silver reward, two taels per person per month, first for a month, and do not make the final settlement until the return to the guard;

Reward silver for war, anyone who fights and does not escape, regardless of whether there is merit or not, will be rewarded with two taels of silver;

Those who behead the enemy, on the basis of the reward given by the court, each person will be given another five taels each;

During the expedition, it is guaranteed that there will be one meat among the three meals (this is pediatric for the Gao family, but almost a dream for the guards, but the meat here is actually mainly fish - a side business carried out by the fleet during this time);

In addition, there are some preferential benefits, such as the family members of the soldiers, who can give priority to participating in some projects in the plan for the construction of southern Liaoning.

All in all, in addition to not daring to copy the pension system that has been implemented by his family for many years, the soldiers under the multiple preferential treatment bonuses can already be said to enjoy the "quasi-family level" treatment.

If you have enough money, things will be easy to do.

The technical and tactical level of these guards may not be significantly improved for a while, but the increase in enthusiasm for participating in the battle is definitely visible to the naked eye.

In the words of Pu Yuanyi, the commander of Haizhou Wei, who first arrived near Hanjiawan and began to dig fortifications, that is: "Go to his uncle, if it weren't for the fact that the posture of these fake Qiu Ba is not even standard, the master really thought that he had taken thousands of family members on the expedition, and he was so anxious that he was screaming, just looking forward to the war?" What a hell of a life! ”

Because Mrs. Cui's words to persuade Pu Yuanyi were listened to by Commander Pu, so this time to send troops, Haizhou Wei is bloody, except for a few fortresses on the front line, Pu Yuanyi almost pulled out all the guys who are registered in Haizhou Wei and can handle hoes, obviously the number of Haizhou Wei is less than 7,000 (it stands to reason that there are 5,600 people in the army, but in fact, according to the different positions guarded, there are many fewer and many more), but Pu Yuanyi actually brought out 8,000 guards!

So much so that when Ma Chengen rushed to Hanjiawan with his family and Fuzhou Wei, Pu Yuanyi actually patted his chest and said to him: "Brother Ma, everyone is a mixed food under the soldiers, and they are all their own people, so don't worry about your defensive fortifications, brother, I have already helped you repair it!" ”

Ma Chengen was stunned for a moment, and then expressed his gratitude, while muttering secretly: You really didn't take a fancy to the two thousand taels of silver that Bing Xian gave to him for repairing fortifications?

It was precisely because the troops and morale were guaranteed that Gao Pragmatic dared to use five or six thousand Jiading plus 20,000 guards to block the surrounded fried flower department that crossed the river and landed.