stubborn thief

Chapter 378
The first day of May in the sixth year of Chongzhen.

On the head of the Bajiao City, the general Pitu Taiji, wearing the mail of the Marshal's Mansion, stood on the wall that lacked protection, looking at the soldiers of the Khalkha battalion who were dredging the moat outside the city.

Any army has the ability to dig trenches, but Liu Chengzong's Khalkha camp, with its skilled geotechnical skills, amazed Ji Tutaiji. Even the Xuanfu frontier army may not be able to match the Kalkha camp in terms of digging trenches and setting up fortifications. Erka Camp.

Everything comes from training. Liu Chengzong's use of the Khalkha surrender army is almost an intensive training in geotechnical engineering.

The Khalkha tribe of Ahai Daiqing surrendered to Liu Chengzong for nearly a year, but failed to participate in any battles as the main force, but took almost all the earthworks.

When there was no war, they built canals in the new city; when there was a war, they dug trenches.

Before surrendering to Liu Chengzong, they were still affiliated with Chuoke Tutaiji last summer, and they dredged the trench outside Bajiao City.

Coming back this year is just a revisit of the old place. They are very familiar with digging trenches, and they even found time to put a grave for Chuoke Tutaiji who was buried in the south of the city.

It can be said that the right time, place and people are in harmony.

Ji Tutaiji discovered that Bald Qiang's team entered the state very quickly.

Although his battalion was called Chahar Camp, in fact, the thousand soldiers sent by Liu Chengzong were all Guru Taiji from Tumedhuoluochibu.

The people from the Chahar camp were still amazed in the city, feeling that there is actually a city built with eight corners in the world, and the soldiers of the Khalkha camp got busy inside and outside the city.

Trees that need to be cut down, and soil that needs to be dug up are all living maps, and they all become tour guides when they enter Bajiao City.

"Looking west from Taiji, the mountain is called Gongzhufen, where the princess of Xixia is buried, which is suitable for setting up artillery; looking south, the mountain is called Taiji tomb, where Kalkha Chuhuerchao Ketu Taiji died forever. place."

"Chaoketuttaiji?"

Ji Tutaiji remembered this person and was very impressed.

Because Chahar Khan came to Qinghai at the invitation of this person, but before the Khan arrived, this person disappeared and was buried here for a long time.

"We were invited here but have never met before. I should pay homage to him." As he spoke, Ji Tutaiji asked his relatives to bring wine and meat to worship, but was stopped by A Haidaiqing.

"I think Taiji should concentrate on military affairs."

A Haidaiqing has no expression on his face: "There is no rush to meet Chaoketutaiji. If you lose to Oirat, the two of you will be together for ten thousand years, and there will be many days to meet."

Ji Tutaiji was stunned before he realized it. He was not angry at Bald's sarcasm, but just smiled and said, "Hey, it's as if you won't die."

A Haidaiqing ignored him.

Everyone will die, but there are differences in dignity and inferiority, and naturally there will be different destinations after death.

When Chahar Khan died, he would be buried in the west, accompanied by the Xixia princess, and he would be a ghost.

When Ji Tutaiji died, he must be buried in the south with Chuoke Tutaiji as companions. They were in the same family before they were alive, and Wangheng and Yu after death, so that they can tell each other their hearts.

As for A Haidaiqing, A Haidaiqing did not dare to die, at least not in Bajiao City.

He is not qualified to be buried in the south, and the burial place left for him is in the east of the city. There are several Khalkanayans whose heads were beheaded by him during the internal strife. Help the headless ghost rivals.

"Last year you had so many cannons, why did you lose?" Ji Tutaiji looked at the bare city wall in the west of the city: "Look at this city wall, it can't even stand up, the generalissimo defends the city so well?"

Ahai Daiqing ignored Chahartaiji who was like a chatterbox for a while.

After a long time, the amount of earthwork and wood needed for a city wall was calculated, and Bald Qiang suddenly realized it. He found Jitu Taiji and asked, "Taiji, do you think we lost the siege?"

Ji Tutaiji nodded as he should, and then heard A Haidaiqing say: "We lost the city by defending the city, and the general who attacked the city was the Generalissimo."

Ji Tutaiji's eyes stared like copper bells. Was this city ever captured by Liu Chengzong?

"No wonder the Khalkha camp is familiar with this strange city. How many months have you guarded this city?"

A Haidaiqing spread five fingers on his left hand, and four fingers on his right hand, and Ji Tutaiji said pleasantly, "It's fine if I can hold it for nine months..."

As he said that, the surprise on his face froze. In his impression, Khalkha had only been in Qinghai for a few months. He frowned and said, "But Khalkha has not been here for nine months!"

"It's nine days." A Haidaiqing: "The city was besieged on the third day of September, and the city was broken on the twelfth day of the ninth month. After nine days, Taiji was buried in the south."

Ji Tutaiji walked down the city without turning his head when he heard the words.

No wonder the city looks so strange, grandma, Liu Shizi has no good intentions.

This city is too unlucky, I have to send someone to tell my elder brother about it quickly, and find a way to get the Oirats to come in.

He was dragged back by A Haidaiqing and shouted: "Just guard the Nine Heavens City, so what's the point of guarding it? My brother can run for nine days!"

A Haidaiqing's face turned bitter, and he clicked his tongue and said: "You don't understand, this is a good city, it can't be broken from the outside, it's really handsome..."

Bald shook his head, almost uttering such words as scheming and cunning, and finally threw away these thoughts, with a worried face on his face: "The most important thing in defending the city is the unity of the people. Whether we can survive depends on the sweat. "

What kind of characters will be stationed in this city.

Not to mention Jitutaiji, which is called the Chahar Camp in name, but actually led a group of Tumets. The Tumed headquarters in Hohhot were all wiped out by Lin Danhan.

The Khalkha battalion under Ahaidaiqing, all members of the khalka battalion were infighting, and the headless Yan Taiji who were buried in the south and east of Bajiao City had all their brains chopped off by them.

Mo Yujing, the former Ming Xining deputy commander who led the gunners, and four hundred veterans under his command had not surrendered to Liu Chengzong in Nianbo for three months. In their eyes, the braided heads of the Mongols were at best an ordinary equivalent.

There is also Chen Shiwen in the east. Relying on his status as a chieftain and two or three hundred soldiers in his hands, he collected all the food that the generalissimo had planted in the besieged city last year, and recruited soldiers everywhere.

That's a real bastard, recruiting is not for war.

It has been almost a year since A Haidaiqing surrendered to the Marshal's Mansion, and he knows the purpose of the Chieftain Chen Shiwen's recruitment of Fanbing.

Chen Shiwen didn't intend to get involved in this war, he just planned to wait until the battle was over, come back to get some spoils, and upgrade his subordinates to the special units of the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion, the Mongolian Armed Fanzi.

Plus Huduntu Dahan who is about to enter Bajiao City... This group of people counts as one, and the things they have done all their lives from childhood to adulthood run counter to the unity that Bajiao City needs at this stage.

When he was first selected by Liu Chengzong to support Bajiao City, A Haidaiqing was more worried about the Oirat coalition forces. Now that he is stationed in Bajiao City, Ahai Daiqing is no longer worried about the Oirat coalition forces, but began to worry about whether they can last until the Oirat coalition forces attack the city.

This kind of worry is nothing but mediocrity, and Huduntu Khan, who is speeding in Qinghai, does not have this kind of worry.

On the first day of May, the Great Khan was still [-] miles away from Bajiao City. By the evening of the third day, the main force of Chahar, besieged by travel and dust, had entered the Ganga Grassland.

The first scattered riders even went straight to Bajiao City, the Grand Master Axitu of Khan Court made a noise and asked Ji Tutaiji to send reinforcements to meet him.

Chahar Khan's marching speed far exceeded Mo Yujing's expectations, and what was even more frightening was that the Oirat coalition forces maintained the same marching speed and bit behind the Khan.

The generals of the two battalions discussed briefly, and immediately decided that A Haidaiqing would lead [-] cavalry to meet them, and Mo Yujing would lead artillery to guard the city.

Before going out of the city, Bald Qiang kept an eye out and handed over a thousand infantry left behind in the camp to Mo Yujing, asking him to prevent Lin Danhan from killing donkeys and sneaking into the city to lock the gates.

Then two thousand cavalry from the Khalkha battalion rolled up the wind and sand and ran to the southwest.

Not long after, Mo Yujing received news from the battle shed on the west wall of Bajiao City that the vanguard of the Chahar army had approached Bajiao City.

War sheds are city defense fortifications that prevailed in the Song Dynasty. Wooden sheds were built on the city walls to defend against arrows. However, in the era of Huihui artillery, wooden war sheds developed into hard sheds with masonry structures. Later, artillery came into being. This structure is not easy to use.

Mo Yujing chose to build this kind of thing in the west city, mainly because the female wall of the west city wall was smashed by Liu Chengzong, and Chen Shiwen, the chieftain who took over the Bajiao city, was also busy with reclaiming and farming the land and didn't care about repairing it.

At this time, it was too late to burn bricks to repair the city, so we could only build wooden war sheds on the west city wall and reinforce them with earth and stones to defend against arrows and lead.

Hearing this, Mo and Jing climbed to the top of the battle shed and looked westward. He was looking forward to what a Mongolian army that had been fighting for hundreds of miles every day would look like.

However, his binoculars were confiscated by Liu Chengzong after he surrendered. He could only see it with his naked eyes, and it was not clear from a distance. It is the old battalion of the Shaanxi Peasant Army.

Seven to eight hundred people, more than 800 horses and donkeys, and a few camels pulled a cart with a small amount of weapons, armor and flags on it. People walked forward in the strong wind.

Mo Yujing's heart fluttered when he saw it, and he said that it was broken, and Lin Danhan was beaten to only a few hundred people left.

After all, he is an old military officer. The first thought in his mind was not to make fun of Lin Danhan's defeat, but to report this matter to the Marshal's Mansion as soon as possible. From the city to Juer Bay, quickly lay a five-hundred-mile pond road, and report the news of this place to the marshal."

Mo Chengli is Mo Yujing's nephew, but he is a direct descendant of Liu Chengzong who was born as a student. Liu Chengzong came to join him when he was fighting in Nangqian. Now he is assigned to Mo Yujing as an envoy to supervise the army.

Mo Lili is very clear about the priorities of the matter. The battle plan of the Marshal's Mansion is based on the fact that Lin Dan Khan has a certain amount of troops. If Lin Dan Khan is beaten to only a few hundred horsemen, Oirat's army will expand to at least [-]. The situation is completely different.

Mo Lili hurried out of the city to lay the pond road, and the seven or eight hundred people were already approaching the city. The leaders were Dou Tumen Gushan, one of the four ministers of Chahar, and Dorzi Darhan, who came to protect Lindan Khan's son Ezhe. .

There are eight ministries in Chahar, and the headquarters is divided into eight empress dowagers, Han Er and eight ministers under the management of the empress, and there are [-] households in each of the left and right wings, which are called Liutuman. Tuman means the whole tribe, ten thousand households The word was borrowed by Jin Guo and called Gushan.

Due to the frequent wars between the Ming and Jin Dynasties, much of Ming's knowledge of the Chahan tribe came from the letters of the Kingdom of Jin, so Chahar's headquarters was also called Liutuman Gushan.

Because it has a Chinese army of [-] households, it is called Baya Lagu Mountain in the Kingdom of Jin.

However, until now, the strength of the Great Khan has been reduced and reduced, and the headquarters has also been adjusted to the four natives and four ministers. The official title of these four ministers is Zaisang, but they are actually prime ministers.

Dorji Darhan, one of the four prime ministers, rushed into the city. Hundreds of people entered the city and lay down on the ground, sitting or lying down, without the strength to stand up again.

Pitutaiji was in a hurry, sending water and food, and then got very funny news from Dorzi Darhan... The troops ran away, and the sweat gathered the troops behind, and they could only keep it together. After helping them break.

In the team that ran into the city, there were people from Jitu Taiji, who brought him a bolt from the blue—the six hundred heavy cavalry he was proud of in front of Liu Chengzong, in order to win the main force a chance to escape, he dismounted and charged as a heavy infantry Camel City was sent away by a wave.

Ji Tutaiji's mouth twitched when he heard that.

It's not because the heavy cavalry is heavy infantry, after all, he knows his horse very well, he has lost weight in the past six months, and riding on a horse is really not as fast as launching a charge in an infantry battle.

And this combat intention is also worthwhile, at least it can protect the large troops to retreat successfully.

But there are only so many elite troops in his headquarters, if he hadn't accepted the official position in the Marshal's Mansion, he would be a bare-bones commander now.

Wu Tutaiji bowed his head and spat out, looked up at the sunset in Qinghai, cursing inwardly, what the hell is this Wu Tutaiji?Feel free to be a general in the Marshal's Mansion and fry rabbits.

On the contrary, Mo Yujing, who had been inquiring for news, sent pieces of the latest news based on his own analysis to the other side of the Yellow River in the northwest through the pond, and suggested to Liu Chengzong that after the war, they must try their best to recruit soldiers and horses from the Chahar tribe.

Mo Yujing is the deputy commander-in-chief of the imperial court. Even if he surrendered to the Marshal's Mansion, he is still fundamentally different from the Mongolian nobles such as Chaotu and Ahai. The key point why he values ​​these Chahar tribesmen is that they are very fond of Qinghai. Familiar with.

After fleeing in embarrassment for a month, he traveled an average of ninety miles a day, almost making a full circle in Qinghai.

When the sky was getting dark, two groups of Chahar troops approached the city outside the Bajiao City. That night, the main force of the Chahar headquarters arrived late and finally entered the Ganga Grassland. The Mongolian soldiers from the Erka camp led into the city one after another overnight.

After entering the city, Lin Dan was sweating profusely. After counting, more than [-] soldiers marched continuously, and only [-] soldiers arrived in Bajiao City. The city is almost powerless.

Fortunately, A Haidaiqing was quite brave. Relying on his familiarity with the terrain, he served as the rear of the Chahar tribe in the mountains, and blocked the exhausted Oirat's chasing army many times, and captured the prisoners to gather intelligence.

But it’s better not to find out this information. If you don’t find out, people don’t care about fear. A Haidaiqing still wants to take advantage of the victory to stop it. It’s good to find out. After the Oirat allied forces took over the Chahar tribe, their strength has swelled to [-] Overwhelmed, A Haidaiqing was so frightened that he ran back to the city with his troops.

The whole city knew that they had [-] enemies.

Most importantly, many Chahar soldiers who entered the city contracted smallpox.

Exhaustion, hunger, plague, and fear filled every inch of Bajiao City.

In the long night, Mo Yujing looked up at the twinkling stars and ordered the Tang soldiers to deliver the Tang report to Liu Chengzong's express horse - it is still too late to retreat to the north bank of the Yellow River.

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)