Chapter 8 Let’s see who runs faster!

Chapter 8 Let’s see who runs faster!

The decision to let Duan Guoren lead 50,000 men in the western expedition was not a hasty decision made by the Yunzhao Group.

Since Nga Wang came to Guanzhong, Gushi Khan knew that the chieftains and chiefs of all sizes on the snowy plateau would no longer be of the same mind as him. Therefore, he naturally went to the Western Regions. The tribe seeks support.

Since the Mongolian and Yuan Empire lost its dominance in the Central Plains, their rule in other places has still suffered heavy losses.

Many khanates disappeared completely, and there were only three powerful ones.

They are Mobei Khalkha Mongolia, Monan Mongolia and Moxi Oirat Mongolia.

Among them, the Oirat Mongols were called Wala in the history books of the Ming Dynasty. They were very powerful during the Yingzong period. They defeated the Ming Dynasty's 500,000-strong army in the Battle of Tumubao and captured Yingzong. Their military peak was once Arrived in the capital of Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, this kind of prosperity was only short-lived. After his death, Wala gradually declined.

After the Ming Dynasty was no longer able to conquer the north, Monan Mongolia became stronger and Oirat was forced to move westward, so it was called Desert Mongolia.

Oirat Mongolia mainly has four major tribes: Junggar tribe, Heshuote tribe, Torgut tribe, and Durbot tribe, of which the Heshuote tribe is its leader.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, that is, seven years ago, Huang Taiji defeated Monan Mongolian Lindan Khan, obtained the imperial seal passed down by the Mongolian Golden Family, and ascended the throne of the Mongolian Great Khan.

After that, all Mongolian tribes declared their submission to the Qing Dynasty, including the Junggar tribe and the Heshuote tribe.

In the 10th year of Chongzhen's reign, Lantian and the Manchus fought a bloody battle in Lantian City and Zhangjiakou area. The heaviest losses were in Monan Mongolia. For a time, there were no traces of cattle and sheep on the grasslands, and no traces of herdsmen were heard on the grasslands.

This battle completely disrupted the original layout of the Mongols. Since Lantian City cut off east-west traffic and also isolated the connection between the Manchu and Qing dynasties and the Junggar tribe, the Junggar tribe quickly grew stronger.

As the leader of the alliance, Gushi Khan of the Heshuote tribe entered Qinghai and the Hexi Corridor, and the Junggar tribe also began its own war with the Yarkand Khanate for the Western Region.

The originally chaotic countries in the Western Region were the opponents of the Junggar tribe, which allowed the Junggar tribe to occupy the vast land from Beslopali to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains in just six years.

At this time, Pope Awang of the Yellow Sect also began to open up business contacts with Lantian, and acquiesced that Lantian occupied the Salt Lake.

The most important reason why he did this is that Zangba Khan, the ruler of the Karma Dynasty in Uzang, won over the chieftains of Sichuan and Tibet Mufu and Khalkha Cho who also believed in the Bai religion. Shihan, together with the chieftain Renbengba who believed in Bon religion, fought against the Yellow religion, which had a large popular base at that time.

With the help of Junggar, Gushi Khan quickly entered Qinghai, captured and killed Quetu Khan, and recruited a large number of Tumut and Khalkha tribesmen in Qinghai.

However, the surge in power of Gushi Khan also caused the conflict between him and Junggar toThe relationship becomes subtle.

Ngawang and Lobsang Qujie, who had a keen sense of politics, immediately sent a letter to Gushi Khan, requesting them to send troops to protect the Dharma.

For this reason, Gushi Khan, who coveted the prosperous cities in Tibet, first left a part of his tribe in Qinghai to prevent the Junggar tribe from interfering with it, and then immediately went south to eliminate Renbengba in Kham. The chieftain later forced the Mufu forces back to Lijiang.

After completing the elimination of the allies of the Karma Dynasty, in order to paralyze Zangba Khan in Lhasa.

Gushi Khan first pretended that he was returning to Qinghai on Ngawang's order, but he suddenly attacked Lhasa halfway.

Caught off guard, Zangba Khan hurriedly retreated his army to today's Shigatse area, but was eventually captured and killed by Gushi Khan.

A ferocious Zangba Khan was finished, but an even more ferocious Gushi Khan appeared again...

Then Ngawang had no choice but to invite the more violent Yun Zhao Come and deal with the fierce Gushi Khan!

This is politics!

Even if Gushi Khan received the support of Junggar, Yunzhao still would not easily launch the Western Expedition at this time.

In the political structure of Lantian, there is not only the idea of ​​making friends at a distance and attacking closely, but also taking advantage of the enemy's internal strife to recuperate.

No matter which way you look at it, what happened in the Snowy Plateau and even the Western Regions is beneficial and harmless to Lantian.

Unfortunately, what Yun Zhao knows is far beyond what Han Lingshan, Zhang Guozhu, Qian Shaoshao, and even the gentlemen of Yushan Academy can compare with.

For Yun Zhao, the Junggar tribe is just a scabies disease. Even if they are allowed to run rampant for a period of time, it will not cause any harm. As long as they dare to take the initiative to attack, for the Lantian Army who is defending nearby, they Just looking for death!

Obviously he could happily wait for Lantian to unify the Central Plains, and then start to clean up these messy forces, but Yun Zhao painfully knew that at this time, the Eurasian continent was entering the golden age of horse racing and enclosure.

Russia is engaged in the most heroic territorial expansion competition in human history.

If Yun Zhao gives up the Western Expedition this time, then within ten years, Russia will expand its territory to the Pacific coast, and then continue to expand to Mongolia, Central Asia, and the Western Regions...

Yun Zhao, who has a mysterious obsession with land, can't stand having his land occupied by others! ! ! !

It may be a little late for Duan Guoren’s Western Expedition, but it doesn’t matter, it’s not too late to start.

The snowy plateau can be left to Gushi Khan, but the Hexi Corridor must be opened up.

I have to say that Awang’s vision of Yun Zhao was quite accurate!

He brought enough sincerity and wealth to finally impress Yun Zhao, and 50,000 non-regular troops headed to the Hexi Corridor, finally able to contain most of Gushi Khan's energy and prevent him from attacking. Settled the Mongol Khan Court in Lhasa.

Xia Wanchun ran away and told Duan Guoren that his master sent him to serve in the army... Yun Zhao was furious and sent someoneGo to catch it, only to find that the bastard has already run away as the front vanguard.

Yun Zhao had no choice but to tell Duan Guoren not to let this boy be ruined in this tentative western expedition.

With Duan Guoren gone, Yun Zhao forced himself not to pay attention to this army. The Western Expedition army, which used Baiyin Factory as its initial base, did not need to worry about their supplies and ordnance.

The big study has once again returned to calm, but everyone knows that from today on, Lantian has entered a new situation.

"Walk well, don't walk backwards. Your butt is very beautiful. I want to see it for a while!"

Liucheng is the first person to be scolded today. , the reason is that Yun Zhao can't stand this guy walking backwards like a eunuch.

Liucheng turned around quickly and ran away in a hurry.

The secretaries and supervisory officials holding documents outside the door saw their boss escaping in a panic, and one by one they whispered to Liucheng to find out why the county magistrate was angry today.

“It’s not like that boy Xia Wanchun skipped class and went to join the Western Expedition. The county magistrate is worried.”

“Oh, if that’s the case, what I’m going to report is good news. , The county magistrate won’t throw things at me, right?”

“It’s hard to say, the county magistrate has been a little moody recently. The last time I reported it was the damage report of Yingtian Mansion, which is supposed to be a good thing, but the county magistrate still scolded me. I'm disheveled."

"It's not a good thing if Yingtian Mansion is damaged. The officials at Yingtian Mansion are all ours, and the people are also ours. If they are unlucky, doesn't it mean that the county is unlucky?"< /p>

“It’s over. Haechi killed two of the li chiefs of Lantian City Farm Reclamation and sent a letter requesting that all li chiefs sent out in the future must receive training from Yushan Academy.

Because all kinds of guys who have half-deserved merit to become the leader are not reliable, they all regard themselves as government officials, they just want to eat more and take more, and some even kill people.

How do you ask me to bring such a document to the county magistrate for approval?

I put on my armor and went in?"

While everyone was talking, they suddenly saw money. Duoduo walked in from the gate with his daughter in his arms and a food box in his arms. The secretaries and officials immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The person who could make the county magistrate happy finally arrived.

Of course the person who can make Yun Zhao happy is not Qian Duoduo. How can there be so much passion in the meeting between an old couple.

The one who can turn spring breeze into rain is naturally his daughter Yunqian!

The girl was sitting at the dining table grabbing rice to eat. Yun Zhao was eating from a bowl. After taking one bite, he said something to the girl that no one could understand.

Every time Yunqian came, Han Lingshan and the others would hide far away.

The scene was warm, and the officials in the secretarial department took the opportunity to line up and put the documents on Yun Zhao's desk, and then waited patiently for a reply outside the door.

"My husband has been very angry recently. It's time to drink some chrysanthemum tea to calm it down."

Qian Duoduo came to Yun Zhao's mouth and sniffed, then fanned his nose to freshen it up.The air means that Yun Zhao's breath smells bad.

When Qian Duoduo said this, Yun Zhao immediately stopped thinking about eating and sighed: "Jinzhou finally fell, and Zu Dashou surrendered. This time he really surrendered.

Not only did he surrender, but he also killed Wu Sangui’s two thousand men.”

Qian Duoduo smiled and said, “Zu Dashou was Wu Sangui’s uncle, so these two thousand men were not necessarily killed. , maybe Wu Sangui was worried about his uncle’s lack of troops and gave him assistance."

Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "Hong Chengchou once said that he would give up the Ningjin Defense Line, but now it seems that he still failed to give up, Jinzhou. Lost it, I don’t know why he marched to Songshan and pretended to fight to the death with Jiannu." As soon as he finished speaking, Qian Shaoshao appeared in front of Yun Zhao and said, "Da Ming. The Secretary of the Ministry of War Chen Xinjia sent Zhang Ruolin, a doctor, to Liaodong secretly!" Yun Zhao picked up his daughter Yun Guan with one hand and read the documents brought by Qian Shaoshao with the other hand.

Qian Shaoshao started eating under the arrangement of his sister.

After reading the paperwork, Yun Zhao held his daughter and walked outside the big study for a long time. When he returned to the study, he put his daughter on the desk and said to Han Lingshan, who had just come in after dinner. : "Has there been any change at Hong Chengchou's place?"

Han Lingshan said: "The news came on February 16th that everything was as usual at Hong Chengchou's place. Someone secretly contacted Hong Chengchou and asked him to surrender, but he was killed by Hong Chengchou. He also sent the head of the secret envoy and his deputy to the capital to clarify his intentions."

Yun Zhao nodded and said: "It seems that Lao Hong is trustworthy, so be prepared to rescue him."

This battle is different from the past. He has been preparing for half a year. He fought in two contact field battles in Xingshan and Jinzhou before. It was very good that he fought against Dorgon with 50,000 men and showed no signs of failure.

Now, he has 80,000 soldiers and horses led by Wang Pu, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong and others as reinforcements. The number of people has reached 130,000, will we really lose?"

Yun Zhao smiled bitterly: "The number of people fighting is an advantage. The problem is, it is not absolute. Start the "Trapped Dragon Ascension" that you have already planned. "Plan it!"

Han Lingshan frowned and said: "This involves the secret identities of many people. Once exposed, the consequences will be serious. Have you really thought about it?"

Yun Zhao waved his hand and said: "Don't wait, let's start. I'm worried that our rescue will be too late and Lao Hong will surrender!"

Han Lingshan said: "Don't test him."

Yun Zhao shook his hand like a cattail leaf fan and said, "Let's forget it. Human nature can never stand the test."