stubborn thief

Chapter 300 Revenge
The Huangnan Xiaohetao occupied by Xiao Lazun is the most fertile area in Qinghai except for the corner of Xining, with a radius of [-] li.

No one would have imagined that at this juncture, Xiao Lazun would give up Huangnan Xiaohetao without even firing an arrow.

Moreover, Razun didn't leave in a hurry. Chuoketu beat his brother Gu Rutaiji violently on the west bank of the Yellow River, and Razun set up defenses on the east bank of the Yellow River.

The huge work of tens of thousands of people moving around, dividing cattle and sheep to make money, was done in an orderly manner.

So much so that Liu Xiangyu and Liu Chengzu didn't realize that Xiao Lazun was going to run away, and thought that the master of all Qinghai and Mongolia was going to fight with his back.

Who knew that the finishing work of the population migration was finished, but there was no news for a few days, and finally sent someone to say that the Huangnan Territory will be handed over to the Generalissimo of Qinghai, and Lazun will cross the river from the south and go to Luhuo County via the Ruoergai Prairie Walk, and finally enter Tibet from Qamdo.

The Liu family father and son were stunned for a long time when they heard the news. Liu Chengzu, who was furious, wanted to send troops to chase after him, but was stopped by Liu Xiangyu: "The population of the territory is gone, can you still chase him back? Prepare for war, La Zun withdraws from the Yellow River, this The battle is going to be tough.”

Liu Chengzu resentfully pounded his fist on the table where the map was laid out, looked at Xiaohetao from Guide to Hezhou on the map, and cursed fiercely: "This idiot!"

The Marshal's Mansion has the concerns of the Marshal's Mansion. It is true that Xiningwei has an army, but it is a garrison battalion. In order to prevent the backyard facing the imperial court from catching fire, the army cannot move.

He worked hard to gather troops, persuaded the sergeants of Zhenhai Camp and Fuqiang Fort, and persuaded several chieftains to send troops together. Only then did he gather [-] mobile troops that could support Lhazun, but the little Lhazun who needed support did not fight. and flee.

Moreover, Razun obviously didn't want to be chased back by him. It was too late for the Marshal's House to know the news. Chuoke Tutaiji had been on the other side of Chen Bing, and he got the news earlier than them, so he would probably have already stationed in Huangnan.

The [-] Mongolian troops, facing west and south, surrounded the core hinterland of the Marshal's Mansion around Qinghai Lake.

Outright betrayal.

"Even if we want to leave, we should wait for my soldiers to enter the Yellow River defense line before leaving. Now it's fucking fine." Liu Chengzu laughed angrily, and clapped his hands: "Don't worry about the troops being unable to move, just fight at the door of the house... this Stupid!"

Liu Xiangyu could see it, shook his head and said: "He is not a fool, the old man just came back to his senses, Lion, Razun, and Bai Yan, they said that they are like a family, we really think that we are like a family, In fact, the three people who said this didn’t believe it.”

Liu Chengzu was said to be confused, and he was taken aback: "Big, what do you mean?"

Liu Xiangyu shook his head and didn't say much: "I figured it out, I don't want to be a shield for us."

Mr. Liu will probably be able to understand La Zun's thoughts now. Slipping away is not a panic, but a well-thought-out expedient strategy.

It's not good for Lazun to stay in Huangnan because each family is taking care of their own affairs.

Just relying on Lazun's thousands of people to protect the tens of thousands of family members of Huoluochi's tribes, if they can't keep them, they won't be able to beat them.

Now that it is said that Taiji is going to settle in U-Tsang with his expeditionary force, and Guru's tribe has been shattered, Razun has no choice.

Staying here to the end is good for the Marshal's Mansion, but Huangnan will inevitably become a battlefield where the Marshal's Mansion and Khalkha compete for the master of Qinghai.

Chuoketu's [-] troops came here to grab food, and what they robbed was Huo Luochi's food. If they won Razun over there, it would end badly; but if the Marshal's Mansion won, would Razun end well?
At most, he could win himself the status of being rewarded by Liu Chengzong for his meritorious deeds.

This also involves the issue that Liu Shizi is not interested in religion, so he may not be rewarded for his meritorious deeds.

At that time, the tribe will be defeated, and I will be worshiped by hundreds of monks all day long in this temple, and I will have to worry about when my religious influence will offend Liu Chengzong, and I will not even have the ability to protect myself.

Forget it.

If Liu Chengzong's conquest of Kangning Mansion in one year and Chuoketu's defeat of Guru in half a month can bring any enlightenment to Razun, it is that everyone is innocent and guilty.

How big is the ability to occupy as much land, the brothers have been pecking at each other for several years in Qinghai, and suddenly found that the guys who poured into Qinghai are stronger than each other, one is competing with the other... How can there be no sense of crisis?

Instead of dragging your face to the end and being kicked away, it's better to go to Uzang now, instead of fighting for power with you secular rulers here, and the Buddha went to Tibet to worship the Buddha.

As for offending Liu Xiangyu and Liu Chengzu by withdrawing defenses to the south, Razun didn't care. It was impossible for these two people to go to Uzang to catch him and kill him.

Liu Chengzong was the one who might storm into Uzang to catch him and kill him, so the land was given to the Marshal's Mansion, and all the people were given to the Marshal's Mansion.

Moreover, Liu Chengzong came back to aid from the west, and La Zun went south from the east. He would rather take a long detour and miss the opportunity to meet. If it is impossible, he will get some rubies from Wu Sizang and send them to you.

Liu Xiangyu adjusted his mood, waved his hand and said: "Don't worry about him, just run away, just make room, and spread out the army of the Tartars. You can figure out when the lion will come back. We don't need to be greedy for merit. We just want to find out the enemy's situation. Lord, wait for the lion to see the enemy army soon, and then make a full-scale attack to contain its troops."

Liu Chengzu nodded and said: "My son also thinks the same way. We are outnumbered. It is not easy to attack until we find out where Chuoke Rabbit is. This matter will be left to Yang Shen who is staying in the camp. Mr. Wei Qian has many Tangqi under his command."

After that, Liu Chengzu scolded the little Razun again: "Father doesn't know something. I hate this Razun. If I don't hate him for running away, I hate him for giving up Huangnan. Now there is no post station on the official road of Xikang, and the east passes through the Songpan Great Grassland. The route to Luhomakon is also cut off."

"A year ago, the lion sent a letter back, saying that it was celebrating the New Year at Dajianlu, so going to Chengdu is much closer than going to Nangqian. If the lion moves fast enough, it will take eighteen days to return to Nangqian after receiving the news in mid-April. The troops from all over the country are gathering and preparing supplies, and the departure will be on May [-] if it is sooner... But we have to wait a little longer for the reinforcements, May [-]."

Liu Chengzu said while doing calculations, and looked up at his father: "Even if the north bank of the source of the Yellow River is not occupied by the Tartars, it is almost the same. From Xining to Nangqian, the road is divided into two sections. The 22 stations in Henan are high and cold and lack roads. I think the lion will not go too fast but also not too slow, forty miles a day, nine days off one day..."

Liu Chengzu knew the speed of Liu Chengzong's march very well. It took Liu Chengzong more than three months to travel from Xining to Nangqian, but it was not a march, but receiving tribute from various places, and by the way, a census was carried out.

From Nangqian back to Xining, two months is enough.

Liu Chengzu said here, and Liu Xiangyu wrote it down next to him. These things are the experience of military officers at the grassroots level. The eldest son can rely on his experience to know everything, but Master Liu can only have a general impression, so he needs to write down these things.

As Liu Chengzu said, he couldn't help pinching his knuckles with his left hand to calculate quickly. After a while, he looked at his father, clenched his fist and said, "Big, today is the tenth day of June. I estimate that within fifteen days, the lion will reach the source of the Yellow River."

Liu Xiangyu listened and memorized, suddenly raised his head and said in surprise: "So fast? There are still eight stops from the source of the Yellow River to Yanchi. Can he fight directly when he comes here?"

"Yes, and these eight stations will be very fast." Liu Chengzu said with certainty: "Lion Marching has never ridden a horse, and the army of General Yang Yao has also seen it. It is no problem to take a long-distance official road and lead a horse for sixty miles a day. It’s not surprising that a sleeping mule can carry a sleeping mule for hundreds of miles a day...it just depends on which troops the lion brings back.”

After knowing Liu Chengzong's marching speed roughly, the father and son prepared for the next battle.

Now that Razun is gone, the battle is going on at the door of his house, and Yang Yao's left-behind battalion stationed in the Haibei camp can be slightly mobilized. Therefore, Liu Chengzu plans to surround the Yellow River and divide the battlefield into two parts, east and west.

Yang Yao, the left-behind battalion of the Hexi Lions Army, was a partial division and went out of the Nanshan Pass for the purpose of harassing, killing, and containing the enemy.

Yang Yao is good at using cavalry soldiers, and under his command are Wei Qian'er, Han Shiyou, and Yang Chengzu. Most of them are veterans who followed Liu Chengzong to Shanshan. Their combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and they are easily regarded as the main force by the enemy.

In Hedong, Liu Chengzu led the Zhenhai Camp, Fuqiang Fort, and the local soldiers from Guide Qianhu to seize the fortress of Xiaohetao. It is not very meaningful to seize the fortress itself, but it is very important to prevent the enemy from capturing the fortress.

Especially Bajiao City in the southeast, guarding the Ganqing Corridor, has always been an important military area for the Central Plains Dynasty and the Northwest regime to compete for. No matter what Liu Chengzu said, he could not let others occupy it.

If it is occupied by Chuoke Rabbit, it will be snatched back. If it is occupied by the Ming army for a while, I am afraid that it will not be able to snatch it back.

Just as the Marshal's Mansion was launching a campaign from east to west in the north, a new battle had already begun at the source of the Yellow River in the south.

Liu Chengzu overestimated the speed of Liu Shizi's march. In fact, Liu Chengzong could walk thirty miles a day.

In terms of the physical strength of lion soldiers, walking eighty miles a day is tiring, but walking fifty or sixty miles a day can maintain a high fighting spirit.

But in such a place with high mountains and cold weather, it is too much for the lion soldiers to travel thirty miles a day.

Lion soldiers are accustomed to military life, endure hardships and stand hard work, and are good at marching. A pair of feet can walk four hooves. They don't have high requirements for living standards. They consume ten catties of fried noodles, one catty of dried meat and three taels of pickled vegetables, supplemented by donkey meat. Burning also provides a haste effect.

But everything has two sides. For a long time, their cultural level and military knowledge have improved, and they don't want people to waste food... A road that can be covered in [-] days has to be walked for a month, and food consumption doubles. Had to suffer from the cold, so that morale was very low.

So much so that grassroots soldiers complained about this speed.

No way, the lion soldiers are not the only ones marching in the brigade. The marching speed never depends on who walks the fastest, but on the slowest one in the team.

More than half of the soldiers in the left camp couldn’t keep up with the long-distance march. After walking for fifteen days, more than 600 people were left behind; Seven or eight hundred.

Fortunately, Liu Chengzong ran all the way from Dajianlu to Nangqian and won a few days, so his marching speed was about the same as Liu Chengzu estimated.

The large army was still marching slowly at the back, Dai Daozi was happy at the front, he was walking so fast.

Moreover, after receiving the request for help from Huangyuan Station from the post station, and with the permission of the commander, Tang Qi moved forward at full speed, and played a confrontation game with the Mongolian side division who crossed the Yellow River early.

The hundred and ten Tang soldiers moved towards hundreds of Mongolian cavalry at a distance of one mile each. They were so frightened that they retreated quickly and tried their best to lie to the north about the military situation, saying that the army of the Marshal's Mansion had killed them.

Two days later, I found that there were still so many Tangqi, so I mustered up the courage to chase them and beat them up, but I couldn't catch them, so Tangqi ran away in a hurry, and hurriedly reported the military situation to the north, saying that it was not the army of the Marshal's Mansion, Just a hundred or ten stragglers.

But just these hundred or ten stragglers also made them suffer a bit.

The northern Tangqi set of equipment was trained with the Mongolian army. It is a professional counterpart to deal with them.

Three-eyed guns are not as powerful as bird guns or heavy muskets in large army battles, but they are still an excellent self-defense weapon for soldiers in encounters.

And this group of herders and warriors who came from Mobei are brave, but they are not as familiar with this method of warfare as Monan Mongolia.

They wanted to fight when they saw Tangqi advancing, and wanted to chase after seeing Tangqi retreating. When Tangqi stood still, they didn’t dare to go up. The team was pulled out of the gap during the chase, so that they didn’t start fighting The formation of one's own side was pulled out of shape.

Dai Daozi rushed here not to destroy the Mongolian army on the south bank of the Yellow River.

But after all, it was a few days late. Dai Daozi wandered along the Yellow River for two days without seeing anyone. He was worried that the Mongolian soldiers would leave and return. The ferry boat equipped with guns, with iron marks hanging on the waist and feet on the bow of the post, Zou Feng cried with joy: "Reinforcement, reinforcements are coming!"

On the other side of the lake, at the foot of the mountain three miles away, thousands of people ran out of the valley, jumping and waving to the Tangqi wearing Daozi.

Near the shore, Zou Feng jumped off the boat, wading through the knee-high lake water, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and ran quickly. He nearly fell twice, and ran ashore with a musket in his hand, saying: "General, Zou Feng, the next Huangyuan Station, Mr. Shuai wants to go north to reclaim the lost land?"

Dai Daozi was taken aback by the question, regaining the lost ground?

To be honest, he has been following Liu Chengzong. In his mind, the outline of Kangning Mansion is between Yushu Baihu Territory and Qamdo, Xining Mansion is between Chaka Yanchi and Qilian Mountain, and the place between Xining Mansion and Kangning Mansion is not Think it's territory.

They have at most a few post stations here, but Dai Daozi heard that even the walls of those post stations have not been repaired yet.

However, Dai Daozi quickly replied, "Zou Yicheng, the commander-in-chief leads the army behind, and he should come here tonight."

Zou Feng nodded heavily: "I'll go to meet them, and I'll take the postmen from Kuhai and Huangyuan Second Stations to meet them."

In the evening of the same day, the right battalion first arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River, and then the left battalion arrived. Liu Chengzong and Zhang Tianlin left the Chinese army to go to the camp at ten miles south of the Yellow River, where they met Zou Feng who had asked to see him.

Zou Feng led nine post soldiers into the camp, and bowed heavily: "Zou Feng, the humble post of Huang Yuan Post, led the second post of Kuhai to meet the commander. Eight hundred and seven Mongolian people from the two places took refuge in Xingxinghai West Mountain. Xie Baixing, the post of Kuhai, led the Eleven Kuhai station soldiers cut off the rear for the people; Huangyuan station Meng Xiao, Du Maocai, and Ma Jianghan blocked the enemy on the river, and all died in Hebei."

Liu Chengzong didn't speak, and stepped forward to grab Zou Feng's shoulders: "You are doing well, you are all good men, this place will be set up as a county guard in the future, and all warriors and heroes are invited to the Town God's Temple... Can you still fight?"

Zou Feng suddenly bowed again, and Hong Sheng said: "Huang Yuan Kuhai Station Brigade and Meng Fan Bing 210 Two, I would like to be the commander-in-chief and the vanguard!"

"Okay, your department is temporarily organized in the guard team, and you will act with me." Liu Chengzong pulled Zou Feng up and looked to the north: "Revenge."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)