stubborn thief

Chapter 382 Text
On the third day of June, the sun was scorching at noon.

In the Heshuo Special Camp in the Mangla River Valley, Batuer Huntaiji of the Junggar Department threw off the reins and led his own soldiers in chain mail and carrying muskets into the camp.

Heshuote's followers were resting, and they stepped on the sand with bare shirts and bare feet, silently and restrainedly polishing their armor blades, and slashing arrow shafts with notched wooden arrowheads again and again.

Batur Huntaiji walked towards the dome tent in the middle of the tribe, and he saw a middle-aged man with a big beard and rattail tied to a wooden post.

The man was stripped naked, revealing the scars of battles all over his body. He was tall and strong, with only a pair of shorts covering his body. He frowned and had sharp eyes, like a beast in the desert.

Batur Huntaiji looked up at the snow-capped mountains shining golden light in the east, and chuckled lightly as he stood in front of the felt tent.

Khan, the national teacher of Heshuote, walked out of the felt tent, and the two Oirat leaders hugged each other enthusiastically, and then separated, Batur Huntaiji said: "This is really a good place."

The Mangla Valley is indeed a good place.

It is located on the southern edge of the Mugetan Desert in the south of Qianhusuo, Guide. From the Mangla River, which originates from the snow-capped mountains in the east, to the west, a silver satin-like river valley rushes out of the desert until it flows westward into the Yellow River, forming a strange landscape. natural landscape.

The river valley is separated by continuous golden sand dunes, and also makes the south bank of the valley grow into lush forests. The terrain of the river is so low that no matter standing in the forest or the desert, the hidden river valley below cannot be seen.

Guo Shihan smiled and invited Junggar Taiji to enter the account, saying: "This used to be the tooth tent of Tuyuhun. It is indeed a good place...how did Taiji come here?"

After entering the tent, Batur Huntaiji took off the round hat with beads hanging on it, held it in his hand for a moment, exhaled heavily through his nose, and then said solemnly: "It is indeed as you expected. , The Marshal's Mansion has dispatched troops."

Guoshi Khan's expression changed slightly: "East?"

As Oirat chased Chahar so far, Lin Dan Khan hid in Bajiao City, and Guoshi Khan judged that the war between the Oirat coalition forces and the Marshal's Mansion was inevitable.

Even if the envoys are sent to pay tribute and the marriage is repaired, it can only delay the start of the war, but cannot avoid the start of the war.

Guoshi Khan tried to avoid war, and it was of course the best result for the Heshuo Special Department to win the vast area of ​​Qinghai except Hehuang without bloodshed.

It's not that the National Teacher Khan was too greedy. In the process of chasing Lin Danhan, he almost turned around the whole Qinghai. The Marshal's Mansion showed no signs of developing and utilizing the land beyond the several gates of Qinghai Lake.

It's almost no man's land here.

On this basis, he can make many concessions, such as being a taxpayer for the Marshal's Mansion in Qinghai, providing two or three thousand military service, and paying tribute through marriage.

If necessary, he was even willing to call Liu Chengzong his adoptive father.

As long as there is the reality of an independent vassal state, it doesn't matter what it looks like.

Liu Chengzong is a Han, and the backbone of the Marshal's Mansion is also the Han who defected from the Ming Dynasty. Sooner or later, they will fight back to the Central Plains. In the consciousness of Guoshi Khan, Qinghai is not that important to Liu Chengzong.

However, the envoys sent never got a positive response from Liu Chengzong... This meant that the Marshal's Office didn't want to talk to him at all.

On the other hand, the Oirat coalition's food supply was insufficient, and they could no longer support them to march another [-] li to return to the Tianshan Mountains.

But Oirat's spies could not enter the territory of the Marshal's Mansion.

In fact, Guoshi Khan was unlucky. It is said that it is very easy for the Mongols to sneak into the west of Xining, but what identity can Oirat's spies pretend to be?Not pretending to be a businessman.

The spies were suspected of smuggling because they didn't have a post station document before boarding the car and boat on Qinghai Lake. Later, they were found to be carrying a tapestry from the Western Regions, which confirmed the name of smuggling.

Oirat spies dared not admit that they were spies, and pleaded guilty to smuggling.

Facts have proved that if you don't understand the law, you must not break the law.

In the two counties of Haixi and Haibei, there is not much information to be spied on, so spies are just a crime of luck.

Generally, they sit in prison for a month. If they are lucky enough to catch up with the lack of manpower, they may be released the next day to raise lambs and dig ore. the people.

Even if you are unlucky, if you are locked up for three to five months, you will be fine when the war is over. The spies of Chuoke Tutaiji used to be like this. The boss sweeps the grave.

Smuggling is different, it is a technical crime.

If you dare to block the handsome man's way of making money, you will be killed on the spot if you catch him. If you have good skills, you can win the birth of a wealthy family in your next life.

This is almost a small matter that no one knows about the Marshal's Mansion, but in the eyes of Guoshi Khan, it is a sign that the Marshal's Mansion is going to use troops to the south.

Instead of transporting supplies to prepare for war, who would blockade the customs so that not even a bird can fly in?

By mistake, although Guoshi Khan's conjecture was based on the wrong source of information, he got the correct result. One month before Liu Chengzong's expedition, he predicted that the army of the Marshal's Mansion would go south to fight.

It is also based on this conjecture that even if Lin Dan Khan, who is poor and poor, hid in Bajiao City, Guoshi Khan would not dare to attack the city immediately after a long pursuit of three thousand miles.

They scattered the people in the vast Heka grassland and the small river in the south of the Yellow River.

In fact, at this moment, the main force of the Chinese army assembled by the two sides is only two hundred miles away in a straight line, but separated by the Yellow River and the Mugetan Desert, so that each other does not know where the enemy is.

Liu Chengzong's dispatch of troops was expected by Guoshi Khan, but Guoshi Khan did not expect to send troops from the east and the Junggar tribe was the first to learn about the situation.

Because the defense zone of the Junggar Department is on the east side, guarding the mountain road for sending troops to Guide Qianhu, it is not a good choice to send troops. Once you come out of that mountain pass, Oirat's army is on the west and east.

Sending troops from there is a sure thing.

"They didn't rush out." Batuer Huntaiji said with a relaxed expression on his face, "Guide's thousands of households sent troops, and it seems that their surname is also Bo'erjijin. They were fought for a while by my little prince, and each other won. Negative, retreated, but they are increasing troops."

The feudal lords of Oirat are divided into grand princes and junior princes. The grand princes are naturally Khan and Taiji. The great princes all have their own Ulus, that is, fiefdoms or tribes.

The leaders of the fiefdoms are noble Nayan, and these Ulus are divided into small Ulus, with Zaisang as the leader, forming the tribal management system.

"Didn't rush out?"

Guoshi Khan frowned, this didn't feel like a deliberate big battle, more like a small-scale conflict caused by accident, he muttered to himself: "I thought they would send troops from the northwest, the mountain pass guarding Yanchi. "

After a short period of bewilderment, Guoshi Khan came back to his senses, sat down beside the teapot with Batur Huntaiji, poured a bowl of hot tea, pushed it over and asked, "How about their army?"

Bateerhui Taiji thought for a while, and then said: "There are many armors, high morale, and the infantry can fight well in formation."

"Almost everyone has a helmet. Probably everyone wears armor, but the workmanship is not good. Some armor can be pierced by heavy arrows, but it is very fierce to fight. There are a few teams that never retreat, and their tradition... Chop people's heads off."

Upon hearing this, Guoshi Khan became suspicious.

Guoshi Khan has defeated remnants from Chuoketu under his command. He has specifically inquired about the situation in the Marshal's Mansion. As far as he knows, Liu Chengzong's army does not chop off people's heads.

It should be the Ming army who cut off the head.

But this Guide Thousand Households Office is indeed the Thousand Households Office under the Marshal's Mansion.

In Guoshi Khan's mind, the army of the Marshal's Mansion encountered by the Junggar Department may be a Ming Dynasty official army who surrendered to Liu Chengzong, so there is such a habit.

"Where are the firearms?" he asked.

"They have a cannon and many muskets, some are useful and some are not. It's very mixed."

Speaking of the word "very complicated", Batuer Huntaiji couldn't help touching his nose with his hands, and he said this with a guilty conscience.

It is difficult to find a more chaotic firearms unit in this world than the Junggar Ministry of Firearms at this time.

They have a large number of homemade muskets of various specifications, a small number of purchased muskets from several countries, and a small number of captured muskets of different origins.

In the long war with the Tsarist Russian expedition, the Junggar Ministry captured hundreds of muskets, and none of those muskets were the same.

Similarly, the Tatar blacksmiths recruited by Junggar could not make a few identical muskets.

However, the German military households that Batur met used far more complicated firearms than those of the Junggars, and they were very powerful and scary in the melee.

There were more than a dozen musketeers with long-handled and short-handled muskets in one pipe, and let them go in a row at the mountain pass. The Junggar infantry was about to charge up while they were reloading, but they didn't expect them to find the spearhead from the back. It was inserted into the musket, and it was actually picked up and charged forward.

There is a musket with several pipes on a disc, which turns around to beat people, and even chops people with a small ax attached to the musket when it gets close.

There are relatively normal muskets, which are fired alternately in three rows; there are also strange things that look like normal muskets, but after firing, they install small iron pipes from the back and continue to shoot; Lifting upside down and swinging the musket handle, there is actually a knife.

There were even people who carried cabinets and carts to the battlefield, and the carts released a bunch of smoking arrows; the cabinets spewed out fire more than ten steps away, which kept burning when they touched their bodies.

A bunch of strange looking things really startled the army of the Zhungeer Ministry when they fought.

However, despite the frightening momentum, the results of the two sides were almost the same.

The Guide military households had great advantages in small-scale melee battles in the mountains, but when the Junggar troops retreated to the outside of the mountains and formed a camel city musket formation on the flat ground, they were helpless.

The range of those strange things is not very far, and their power is designed to hit people. They are not good at dealing with camels covered with animal skins and bedding. If they get close, they will be suppressed by Junggar's muskets.

After fighting back and forth for several times, not only failed to expand the results of the battle, but also because the trees on the mountain road behind were set on fire by the oil tank, they retreated in a hurry, leaving behind many corpses.

As for the fact that Batur was deeply impressed by the beheading behavior of the Guide military households, it was mainly because these people were too fanatical about beheading, and no dead man could keep his head. All scared out of the psychological shadow.

Batur Huntaiji thought for a while, collected the opponents in his mind, and made a comment on this enemy army: "Compared with Yang Jier's troops, they are stronger in melee battles and weaker in field battles."

Yang Jier is the Kazakh Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate is a good reference for the Oirats as they have been at war for 100 years.

The Kazakh Khanate belongs to the old strong department in the middle of the river. It once sent [-] troops to occupy Ahexiyi, Andijan, Tashkent, Samarkand and other places. It had the upper hand most of the time in the Hundred Years War with Oirat.

As for in the sixth year of Longqing, Huang Taiji, who was killed by Altan Khan's right-hand man and the Ordos Department, went to Suiye City, beat the Kazakh Khan all over the ground, chased after him unconvinced, and was cut off again. Huang Taiji led 700 people to play a fantasy A big victory is an accident in the long history.

Hearing that Batur Hui Taiji believed that the army of the Marshal's Mansion was weaker than the Kazakhs in field battles, Guoshi Khan nodded slowly: "You can lure them to attack us."

After saying this, Guoshi Khan decided to summon all the nobles to the Mangla River to discuss matters.

As soon as he made this decision, he said to Batur Huntaiji: "We will go west and fight them in the Heka Grassland, but the Junggar will go there later."

Batur Hun Taiji asked: "Why?"

Guoshi Khan raised his finger to the east: "There is a profuse Khan in the mountain city. He must have been too suffocated. If the Marshal's Mansion's army goes south, he will probably come out of the city. Taiji needs to ambush him for a while."

Hun Taiji had no objection to this arrangement in his heart, and leading the army to ambush Lin Danhan was much easier than fighting against the troops of the marshal's mansion with weird faces.

But he didn't agree immediately, instead he asked: "Who is that person tied to the pillar outside the tent?"

"A Chahar spy, a Han Chinese from Tumochuan."

"Han? I thought he was an Oirat."

Mentioning the prisoner tied outside the tent, Guoshi Khan showed a complex expression that wanted to laugh but couldn't: "I also thought he was an Oirat."

The spy was dressed too much, he had an Oirat hairstyle, spoke fluent Mongolian dialect, had a full set of Oirat cavalry equipment, and even the trinkets on the braids were fake.

Even when he was discovered, it was because he pretended too much and was too professional.

In a group of Oirat soldiers who had been fighting for half a year, half an inch or even an inch of hair grew on everyone's head, and a man with a clean shaved head was mixed in.

Among a group of Oirat warriors, all shirtless and barefoot, who were resting due to the hot summer, there appeared a man who was fully armed and sweating profusely.

Among a group of Oirat men who were generally 160 feet [-] inches tall and weighed [-] pounds, there appeared a strong man who was [-] feet [-] inches tall, covered with fat and muscle, and looked at least [-] pounds.

Especially language, language is the biggest flaw.

What is Oirat?
The communication cost of the Oirats is very high, and the Mongolian language is not the only language. Not to mention that the warriors of the four big tribes gather together, even if there is a single big tribe, it is difficult for the people in it to communicate fluently.

In the Junggar tribe alone, there are Kazakh tribes who speak Turkic dialects, Huihui from the Western Regions who taught the Mongols guns, Western monks and soldiers who preached to everyone, and even Cossacks who were captured and surrendered.

People of all colors have lived together for a long time, and their words have long been mixed together.

This is the darkest age of Oirat.

Due to the perennial wars, the big nobles are still precarious, and the wealth of the small nobles is even more difficult to accumulate. People with knowledge almost disappear in the war.

Not to mention herdsmen, even princes and nobles, most of them are illiterate.

This did not interfere with the daily life of the tribe, but the effect was far-reaching, and their language became more confusing, further rendering the writing useless.

As a result of the failure of writing, their history and epics, culture and knowledge are dying.

People often speak Mongolian interspersed with Turkic dialect, and suddenly borrow two words from Huihui, which are mixed with Western nouns learned from monks. During the conversation, there must be three or five words that no one can understand. local dialect.

You say I guess is a normal and common way of communication.

At this juncture, suddenly appeared an exceptionally tall and strong Monan dialect master who was fully armed in the scorching heat, maintained a decent appearance and appearance?

This physical condition, this knowledge reserve, and this discipline are nothing like Oirat, or even Chahar.

Guoshi Khan is still skeptical about whether this person is Tumed or not.

But Batur Huntaiji didn't care about this person's background, he just asked, "Is he literate?"

"He said his name was Dai Daozi, he knew Chinese and could write it."

With a snap, Hui Taiji applauded: "Give me this man, and I'll go and ambush Chahar Khan."

He wants to create a new script, which belongs to Oirat and belongs to Junggar!
　Good evening!The child was exposed to blue light for three days, and the jaundice was resolved. I will go to the doctor tomorrow to have a look. It should be fine.

　　
　
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