stubborn thief

Chapter 297 Huang Yuanyi

At the source of the Yellow River on the official road in Xikang, there is a Huangyuan Station.

This is the No.12 station along the Xikang Line. It is [-] miles away from Chaka Yanchi in the north and [-] miles away from Nangqian in the south.

At the beginning of spring this year, the former head of the Lion Army, Zou Feng, received the letter of appointment from Nangqian, the Nine-Pin Post Office, and led eleven Lion soldiers under his command to arrive here.

It is very difficult for military cadres like the Lion Army to work in the local area, because the support provided by the Marshal's Office is basically an enlarged version of the support He Renlong gave to the Liu brothers.

Zou Feng was very happy when he learned that he was going to take the post of Yicheng. This is an official!
He was originally from the frontier army in Ningxia, and he didn't have any impressive resume. He picked the sand at the root of the Great Wall and went out to fight the northern captives. He didn't earn much money or make any great achievements. Yan'an Mansion, because of a bowl of ginger soup caught Liu Chengzong's way.

I can't say good or bad about my life, I was born poor, and I'm used to not having military pay. Anyway, I ate quite well with Liu Chengzong, and with my status as a frontier soldier, I made a fool of myself.

Anyway, I'm pretty desperate everywhere these days, and I can still look forward to following Liu Chengzong. I thought in my heart that in this life, I can be a member of the management team with the commander-in-chief.

After all, although the Lion Army wants to fight back to the Central Plains, let's forget about this matter, the commander and senior generals think about it.

For officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, being able to eat well, have some pocket money, marry a wife and aunt, have a few cubs, and get a piece of land in the future, and have a stable income is much more realistic than returning to the Central Plains princes and generals.

Suddenly he was made an official, Zou Feng was very excited.

Although I don't know where the station is, but the name is a good place.

Zou Feng has a friend named Xie Baixing, who was also the Ningxia Frontier Army who surrendered to Liu Chengzong with him.

Zou Feng greeted his brothers, unloaded all the equipment, loaded it into the car, and pushed it to the magistrate’s office. From now on, we will be officials. I move my butt up, Yi Cheng will definitely pick from you.

But when he took office, Zou Feng realized something was wrong.

He said in his heart: I am the former postman, at least give me some food for the post station?It is really impossible to put some farm tools, I will go to reclaim the land.

But the Marshal's Mansion does not produce food.

Yang Dingrui, the magistrate of Nangqian, kindly saw him off, and there were no gifts before he left. The only thing that really belonged to Yicheng was an iron seal and a letter of appointment.

The twelve lion soldiers, including Shichang, Yongchang, Zhangling, and Huochang, had just unloaded their equipment, loaded them on small carts and pushed them to the magistrate's yamen. Loaded them up and added something new.

Waist knives and spears, gunpowder for riding bows, gunpowder for carrying guns, armored cotton armor, felt tents and quilts, not only these things are still there, but the magistrate’s yamen also released 100 arrows, three large barrels of gunpowder, and more than [-] tea bricks for them.

He even installed a seventy-pound lynx grandson on the car with a door bag locked by Huang Shengxiao, the chief artillery officer of Moburg.

The lynx sun is a small red cannon made by Huang Shengxiao according to the lion cannon. It is called a bobcat, but the garrison with a lot of money calls it the lynx sun.

This set of equipment made him feel agitated. He didn't bring so many weapons and equipment from Xining and the commander-in-chief Nanzheng.

Zou Feng asked Yang Dingrui: "Master Yang, is my Huangyuan Station occupied by the enemy?"

Yang Dingrui quickly shook his head with a smile: "No, there are few people there, you have to go hunting."

Zou Feng, who was full of murmurs, took eleven lion soldiers to take office, and then he realized that the magistrate Yang is a literati, and his speech is more tactful.

The fuck is it sparsely populated?
Regardless of whether people have gone north, that ghostly place is higher than Nangqian, and it can freeze a calf to death.

Within a hundred miles of the three stations, there are two Fanmin tribes and one Mongolian tribe, with a total of less than [-] people. They are all nomadic nomads, and there are more wild donkeys than people.

What is the most annoying thing?Zou Feng has been ridiculing Xie Baixing, the Kuhai Station Prime Minister, saying that it is a bad luck.

In the end, when he took office, he found that the two were on the same road, and Xie Baixing's Kuhaiyi station was just in front of him.

Huangyuan is the summer and autumn grassland of the local herdsmen. When winter comes, the herdsmen all go to Kuhaiyi, because the winter is slightly warmer there!

It turns out that my own territory is worse than others.

But when he arrived at Huangyuanyi, Zou Feng felt relieved, it was not going to be any better anyway.

There are mountain roads from the south to the north on the side of the bitter sea. To him, there are mountain roads to the north and flat terrain to the south. He can only use the ferry built by the locals.

In the two months after the Chinese New Year, Zou Feng tried to cultivate [-] acres of land, but the seedlings sprouted too early, and all of them froze to death; raising ten small animals, two of them survived a cold snap.

Yang Dingrui's foresight was manifested. One of the twelve lion soldiers was stationed in Hebei and one in Henan. They managed the two ferries bought by tea bricks and ferrymen. The rest of them became hunters. Fortunately, there are many wild animals in this place. The days are barely supported, and life is harder than being a soldier.

But even so, the life of the lion soldiers is much better than that of the local people. They have guns and weapons, and the local people dare not rob them even though there are many people. Moreover, they also have tea bricks. In exchange for livestock and rations.

With these, they became the targets of the tribal leaders' scrambling to win them over. Within a month, all twelve post soldiers married local wives and aunts.

With the help of the local Fanmin, Zou Feng finally built three walls, and Huang Yuanyi took the prototype of a post station.

Until the end of March, a message from Kuhai broke Zou Feng's peaceful life. The Tartar army from outside Suzhou attacked Xining Mansion. The postman who delivered the letter in the north was intercepted and injured. Arrived at Kuhai Station.

Xie Baixing asked Zou Feng to go over, and the two postmen stared at each other all night, wondering if they should send the news to Kangning because there was no letter.

When the two of them were at a loss in Kuhai Station, dozens of fleeing Mongolian herdsmen first ran from the north, and then hundreds of enemy horses came in pursuit.

Both of them are ignorant when they are postmen, but when it comes to fighting, they are experts.

There was no danger to defend the Kuhai Post, so Xie Baixing made a decisive decision and entrusted Zou Feng with heavy equipment, refugees, and local people, and asked him to lead the people to retreat to the south, while he led eleven post soldiers in armor to organize defense on the spot.

In the echo of the three-eyed gun echoing in the valley, Zou Feng retreated all the way to Huangyuan Station, organized his men to cross the river south, and finally burned down the ferry. More than [-] herdsmen and dozens of refugees from the north of the Yellow River were all rescued.

But including Xie Baixing, none of the twelve lion soldiers from Kuhai Station escaped.

Among the fleeing Mongolian refugees, there was a monk who could speak Han. He said that they were the tribes of Guru Taiji. They were suddenly attacked by Chuidan. The local government asks the Generalissimo to call the shots.

Zou Feng's expression was complicated, it's normal for people to let the Marshal's Mansion be the master, the elite soldiers and generals like Taiji all followed Baiyan Taiji to the south, and now they are probably all camping in Tibet.

But in the place of Huangyuanyi, how can it be called a place for Han people?
In a radius of a hundred miles, there are only twelve lion soldiers and three earthen walls.

There is no other way, Zou Feng can only bite the bullet and pass the news of asking for help to the south. On the one hand, he checks the equipment and actively prepares for the battle. The weapons that Yang Dingrui asked him to carry are finally coming in handy.

The Mongolian horse team that came from afar burned the felt tents that the herdsmen had no time to take away on the opposite bank, and rode their horses around, their intention to cross the river and continue to attack was obvious.

Seeing the [-] acres of land that he worked so hard to reclaim being trampled by horseshoes, and thinking of the death of his friend in Kuhaiyi, Zou Feng was furious.

Others persuaded to lead people to retreat to the south, but he flatly refused: "I am Huang Yuan Yi Cheng, Huang Yuan Yi is gone, what's the use of Yi Cheng?"

Zou Feng wanted revenge.

The benefits of intermarriage were clear at this time. The old father-in-law, brother-in-law, and brother-in-law of the post soldiers were all recruited by Zou Feng, and young and strong were selected from the refugees and tribesmen to form a team of hundreds of people to serve as the coastal guards.

The two sides faced each other across the Yellow River. These Mongolian soldiers who came from nowhere lacked the means to cross the river. The two ferryboats on this river were in Zou Feng's hands.

He counted the number of Mongolian soldiers on the other side every day. At first it was four or five hundred, and then it was close to a thousand riders at the most, and then gradually decreased. But they began to pull out the dead wood from the mountains for an unknown amount of time to make boats. .

Finally, half a month later, the number of Mongolian soldiers on the other side remained at more than [-], and Zou Feng thought that his chance had come.

He has two boats, one large and one small, the small one can carry six people, and the large one can carry 20 people. In line with the design ideas of warships inherited from the Qinghai Navy, the large ferry was quickly refitted.

Without Liu Chengzong's knowledge, the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion added the establishment of the Yellow River Navy.

The Yellow River Navy has 19 members, including an admiral, 11 sailors, five baggage soldiers, and two boatmen.

Equipped with a heavy-fire battleship with two cannons, two carrying guns, and eight light and heavy muskets, and a small salvage ship.

On the morning of April [-]th in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Yellow River Navy completed its oath on the south bank of the source of the Yellow River. Immediately, all members boarded the ship and set sail. When they saw the Mongolian cavalry wandering along the coast, they launched a violent attack, attacked the enemy shipyard, and killed nine enemy soldiers. , Three horses.

Then the salvage ship carrying six people quickly docked, and five heavy soldiers landed with knives, salvaged the enemy's supplies and dead horse corpses on board, and set fire to the three sampans under construction, and returned in victory.

Originally, I wanted to snatch a small sampan that had been built and return it as the No. [-] salvage ship, but it sank as soon as it was launched.

After that, Admiral Zou Feng became more and more courageous in his battles. He went to battle every day, won nine battles and won nine victories, and even captured two prisoners.

Zou Feng also summed up a set of equipment ideas suitable for combat during the battle, and the two lynx suns that were loaded on the ship were unloaded in the second battle.

A total of one cannon was fired, but it failed to hit the enemy, but it shocked the sailors on board, fearing that the ferry would sink to the bottom, which greatly affected morale.

On the contrary, it is very useful to carry a gun on a boat. If it is far away to load a large lead bullet, the hit rate is extremely high. When it is close to load a broken iron slag, a shot of a gun can kill more than a dozen people.

The Mongolian nobles on the other side were so angry that their teeth were itchy, and more than 200 people were mobilized to hide at the foot of the mountain to build ships.

Not only is the ship building on the other side, but Zou Feng's next plan is to build a ship.

His father-in-law is the head of the nearby Banbu. Relying on the spoils taken by the salvage ship, the whole tribe has used Mongolian equipment.

But the equipment can be snatched, but the quality of the soldiers is not good. In this sparsely populated place, people rarely fight.

The old father-in-law said with a sad face: "Feng'er, I don't even know how to build a boat, and I don't dare to build a boat because I don't have magic weapons."

"Old man, the purpose of building a boat is to cross the river. We don't know how to build a boat, but the Mongols can? Anyway, neither side knows how to build a boat. We still have a ready-made boat to look at."

The Mongolian nobles on the north bank of the Yellow River built ships to kill Zou Feng.

And Zou Feng built the boat to give the army a chance to cross the river, because he already knew where the enemy came from from the prisoners.

The leader of the enemy was Chuoke Tutaiji who had been stationed outside the borders of Gansu during the reign of Tianqi. He led the Mongolian nobles from Khalkha and united many Mongolian nobles stationed in unlucky places such as Chuidan.

"I found out from the captives that there are 3 people in the Tazi coalition army. This number is basically all the Mongolian soldiers in Qinghai except the Tumed tribe."

The old man was terrified when he heard it. He may not have met thirty thousand people in his life. He waved his hand quickly, took Zou Feng by the arm and said, "Then why don't we go south?"

"Why are you running, you can't fight them?"

The old man slapped himself on the forehead.

In fact, Zou Feng's father-in-law is very happy recently, his son-in-law is very capable, eighty if not a hundred Mongolian soldiers died in his hands, and the spoils he looted piled up like a mountain, and he started his business on the Yellow River with two ferries.

But when he heard that there were tens of thousands of troops on the opposite side, the old man, who had never seen anything in his life, felt timid, but he didn't dare to say, 3 people, how many troops are there in your Qinghai Marshal's Mansion, maybe the Xining Mansion will be lost.

Zou Feng knew what her father-in-law was thinking, waved her hand and said: "I can't go, the commander must be heading north, my brother died on the other side, if I run away, I'm sorry for him, I'm sorry for the commander, I'm sorry for myself, and Xining Can't lose it."

"How do you know you can't lose it?"

Zou Feng was at a loss for words, how should he explain this matter?Because there is a big fool in the Northeast called Xiao Lazun?
He analyzed Chuoke Rabbit's marching route, he did not follow Gansu to Qilian Mountains, but directly attacked the territory of Salt Lake and Gurutaiji from Chuidan.

But Xiao Lazun, who was entrenched in the east of the river, was indifferent to this matter, and forbade Guru Taiji's tribe to retreat eastward, and even wanted to take this opportunity to grab his brother.

Therefore, Zou Feng speculated that from Chakayanchi to the source of the Yellow River, the territory that once belonged to Guru Taiji probably fell to the whole territory.

"Master Liu sits in the north and established the two counties of Haixi and Haibei. The commander still stationed General Zhonghu's [-] elite soldiers at Nanshan Pass. If Chuoketu can conquer Nanshan Pass, he doesn't have to go from Tuidan."

Zou Feng waved his hand, and then raised his thumb firmly: "So listen to me, let's build the boat, and when the commander returns from the south, the god of Qinghai is still the commander. Your son-in-law... will definitely win a hundred generals!" Do it!"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)