stubborn thief

Chapter 529 Arrived

Even though he had an angel in his pocket, when Yang Qi led the troops to march north, he still couldn't relax.

Because Liu Chengzong gave him extremely strong support, extremely high official position, incomparable power and good soldiers and horses, but in the final analysis this is very different from Cao Yao's Gansu Governor's Mansion.

In Gansu, it was Liu Chengzong who personally led the army to fight down, and the place that should be surrendered was surrendered, leaving a garrison to take over the territory, gathering the guards on the oasis, establishing the Marshal's mansion, and being able to control it through the five Huang Fans. The Qilian Mountain Road receives immigrants from Hehuang.

As for Monan, the Marshal's Mansion does not have an inch of land or a single soldier there, and it is impossible to receive any support from the Marshal's Mansion in the short term.

This is more like Liu Chengzong supporting a leader of the peasant army who was defeated by the official army, giving him soldiers and horses, food and grass, and asking him to start another business.

Yang Qi was not blinded by greed, he knew very well that this time sending troops was not the best opportunity for him, the best opportunity should be the Marshal's Mansion sending troops to Guyuan, the risk factor is low and the probability of success is high, as long as he is given a thousand If you ride horses and race horses carefully, you can take Guyuan away.

Sending troops to Monan is more like a gamble, betting that the Golden Army will not be stationed in Monan for a long time, and also betting that the Marshal's army will reach the battlefield before they return to Shenyang.

Yang Qi is betting, and Liu Chengzong is also betting, but in this bet, Liu Chengzong can afford to lose, and Yang Qi can only win.

The Monan army started to act at the moment of the expedition. The three general officers were their own people. They worked out a plan extremely quickly. burden.

Yang Qi, Wang Cheng'en, and He Huchen are all the most professional people in leading troops, especially leading the hungry soldiers. They know best when the army will be hungry and when it will be overwhelmed.

Counting from the moment they dispatch troops, their lives have entered a countdown. They are full of battles and full calculations. The time to have full combat effectiveness is one month. If the loss of combat effectiveness is the cost, this time can be extended to three months.

Three months later, the Monan Army will lose most of its combat effectiveness, and then die in the winter of the seventh year of Chongzhen.

It's not that this army died in winter, but that the three of them died in winter. This army may fall into bandits or live in a meager existence until they see Liu Chengzong again, but before that, the angry soldiers will kill them first.

It's not about how loyal they are to Liu Chengzong. The army assigned to the Monan Governor's Mansion is almost the most loyal army representative in the Marshal's Mansion.

There are [-] Mongolian cavalry, all of whom were descended from the army, and the nobles who have been loyal for generations have more or less died because of Liu Chengzong.

The [-] Battalion of Xifan Iron Cavalry, not many troops were surrendered, and more were prisoners. On the first day they joined the Marshal's Mansion, they were thrown into the Haibei Quarry for labor reform. Army effectiveness.

There are 3000 people in the Lintao Brigade. Most of the soldiers think that joining the Marshal's Mansion is an arrangement of fate. They greeted the internal strife in Lanzhou City in a daze, and changed their flags strangely.

Shi Xiang, who defected on the battlefield, was like an independent small warlord holding the army of Lintao Brigade. He didn't have any ideological reform, and he didn't agree with the Marshal's Mansion. If it's clean, the Generalissimo will pay our men and divide the land.

The 500 people from Li Wanqing, Luo Rucai, and Yang Chengzu are the second-tier old guys in the Marshal's Mansion, and [-] out of [-] people were selected by the battalion commander himself. A second-line old guy who is too useful.

And the 1000 people selected by Bai Wenxuan are elite troops. Firstly, they are a little small, and secondly, they have relatively low loyalty in the Marshal's Mansion.

The most loyal one is actually the two thousand Chahar cavalry that Dunta Wulusi transferred from Han Er, which is the dowry of the Mongolian empress. They followed all the way from Liaodong to Qinghai, and the soldiers and horses were raised in Qinghai Lake. Fat and strong, it is an excellent army.

But the loyalty of the soldiers in the Marshal's Mansion can't be held back, and the bottom line is almost catching up with the upper limit of other people's homes - let them burn, kill, loot outside to live a happy life, there is a high probability that they don't want to go back to the Marshal's Mansion, but once they don't have enough to eat, they will be the first to think of it. It is Liu Chengzong.

So Liu Chengzong can afford to lose, even if this army is completely dispersed in Monan, as long as there is a chance, the survivors will still try to find him.

But the three commanders couldn't afford to lose. After all, they couldn't win Guihua City, and He Huchen wanted to take Yang Qi's head back.

So Yang Qi's plan is to fight for all the forces that can be won, unite all the forces that can be united, and try every means to take root in Guihua City in Monan, until the day when Liu Chengzong takes Yulin.

First in Gulang Gorge, Wang Chengen personally boarded Yingpan Ridge, successfully persuaded more than [-] Liangzhou soldiers from Ding Shaoyin's tribe who had been besieged for a long time on the mountain to surrender, and liberated a thousand headquarters of Zhang Tianlin's battalion fortified below the mountain.

Then He Huchen went north to Liangzhou, persuaded Li Hongsi and Cao Wenzhao who were firmly guarding Liangzhou City to surrender, and tried to win them over to attack the Eastern Captives, but was almost shot to death by Cao Wenzhao.

He Huchen was so angry that he turned around from Liangzhou City and returned to Gulang Gorge cursing. He said to himself... If you don't go, you won't go, why the fuck are you bastard shooting me with an arrow?
But he knew why Cao Wenzhao shot him with an arrow. After all, if the Liangzhou army really acted together with him, they might disarm him when they left the city.

But He Huchen actually had another doubt in his heart. He didn't understand why the Liangzhou army was not interested in fighting Donglu—in the Marshal's Mansion, regardless of anyone, they would be very excited when they heard that they were going to fight Donglu.

This is of course not because they think Donglu is an easy-to-fight chicken and tile dog. Although there are not many people in the Marshal's Mansion who have actually seen Donglu in battle, the Mongolian soldiers under his rule, except Oirat, have felt the aftermath. Jin Xizheng's sense of oppression, and Daming's fighting with Donglu for so many years, at least he knew that they were difficult to deal with.

The reason for the excitement is actually very simple. It is not about national enthusiasm or family and country ambitions, just two words: silver.

Although the Marshal's Mansion is now a regular army, this army, which is dominated by the ex-military frontier army and the homeless peasant army, inevitably has a small difference in values ​​​​from normal people.

After all, even Liu Chengzong's Grand Marshal Law has written in black and white: Private robbery is prohibited, and those who violate it will have their hands chopped off.

Then there is no doubt that organized robbery, even if it does not belong to the spread of positive energy in the Marshal's Mansion, is also considered a core value, a way to get rich through hard work.

Thanks to Hauge's visit to the Marshal's Mansion, every inch of land under Liu Chengzong's rule has a legend of silver in the northeast.

This decided to fight with them, and it would not be a disadvantage.

It didn't matter to Yang Qi and others that He Huchen failed to persuade the Liangzhou Guards to surrender. Anyway, the battle in Liangzhou was about to start soon, and this couldn't hold back Liu Chengzong's main force for too long.

Then the troops were divided into four groups. He Huchen was the first to send troops on the first route, led by the headquarters of the Chahar Battalion, along the southern edge of the Tengger Desert, and went straight to the chaotic beach in the west of Helan Mountain.

The second route was followed by the army led by Ji Tutaiji, who took the angel Fang Zhenghua and walked along the north bank of the Yellow River; the third route was led by Wang Chengen, who took the angel Fang Zhenghua's letter and went straight to Zhongwei in Ningxia.

The last route was Yang Qi. He took Bai Wenxuan and chose the most special route to march. He crossed Songshan Mountain and aimed at Dielesun Fort belonging to the Jinglu Guard in the middle of the two side walls on the east bank of the Yellow River.

The reason why Yang Qi divided his troops into four groups was firstly to increase the speed of marching, secondly to reduce the pressure on the luggage, and thirdly...to try not to eat his own food.

He Huchen and Ji Tutaiji went to the outside, with the goal of getting food from Yinchuan; Wang Chengen went to the south bank of the Yellow River, with the goal of getting food from Zhongwei in Ningxia.

As for Yang Qi himself, he not only planned to eat the food in the north of Guyuan, but also planned to see how well Daming had trained the Guyuan soldiers in the years since he left Guyuan, thinking about taking a group of people away.

Their division of labor is very clear, with Wang Chengen and Ji Tutaiji as the core, and Fang Zhenghua's letters, bypassing Hong Chengchou and the border generals, handing them over to the guarding eunuchs along the way, ordering them to provide [-] shi of grain and grass, and then they sent troops to attack the eastern captives.

After all, most of the feudal officials looked down on the domineering eunuchs in their hearts. This had nothing to do with the latter's physical disability, but with the low position and weight brought about by professional characteristics. Similar to eunuchs were eunuchs.

The speech officer is very powerful at a certain time, the chief soldier, the chief assistant, and the emperor, there is no one who can't or dare not to scold, but what's the use of this?Most of the time it's just a gun to point and shoot.

The gun is not powerful, the powerful one will always be the one who shoots the gun.

In theory, this is the emperor's gun, but powerful ministers can sometimes use it for fun.

The same is true for eunuchs. People are afraid of the emperor, not slaves running around.

If the emperor wants to be a minister, he can do it without eunuchs talking; if the emperor doesn't want to be a minister, the eunuch will slander, and the eunuch will die.

But the eunuchs guarding the place are different. Sooner or later they will go back to the 24 yamen in the Forbidden City.

Of course, Yang Qi also has a backup plan, if the eunuchs in Ningxia don't like this, then they can only find acquaintances, who are all officers in the army, who can do so few things that they want to do but can't do? , People who want to do it but can't do it?
This time is the opportunity.

The Four-Route Monan Army raced along the Tengger Desert and the Yellow River. After receiving a letter from Cao Yao, the governor of Gansu, Liu Chengzong happily ran from Lanzhou to the new city west of Xining, the first place in Batuerhuitaiji. A group of caravans have arrived at Jiayuguan.

Cao Yao said in the letter that the leader of the team was Batur Huntaiji's younger brother, and Batur wrote a special letter to apologize to Liu Chengzong in advance, saying that he was very sorry, and there was really no one around him who could take on the job. I can send this money-greedy brother over here. If his brother says something that shouldn't be said, I hope Liu Chengzong can see his face and don't kill his brother.

Just looking at this letter, Liu Chengzong wondered if this Batuer Huntaiji had some kind of fucking treasure brother, did he introduce it to anyone?

Liu Chengzong ran to Xincheng and went directly to Xincheng Academy to find out who Batuer Huntaiji's younger brother was, and told his brother to attach so much importance to him.

The person who can answer his question is Tara Taiji, the leader of Dulbert's department.

Dalai Taiji is an outlier among the Oirat nobles. According to Liu Chengzong's knowledge, most of the Oirat nobles who stayed in the marshal's mansion were like the national teacher Khan. Du Erbo's title, but like those young nobles, studying hard at Xincheng Academy.

Others learn everything, but Dalai only learns cavalry warfare, and it is Tangqi warfare in cavalry warfare.

Probably because he was psychologically shadowed by Tang Bing in the Heka Grassland.

Seeing Liu Chengzong again, Da Lai was very happy, thinking that he was going to be recruited to send troops, so he rode over with the three-eyed blunderbuss, startling the young Habayashi riders, and only changed when he heard Liu Chengzong's question. He changed his expression, and sighed with a complicated expression: "Chu Huer, that's a person without affection."

Batur Huntaiji's younger brother, ranked third, has the same name as Chuoke Tutaiji who went to Qinghai to fight for territory with Liu Chengzong. He is also called Chuhuer, and his full name is Chuhuer Ubashi.

In the fifth year of Apocalypse, their younger brother Qingtaiji died. Chu Huer and another younger brother Baiba both competed for Qingtaiji's inheritance. The two brothers had a big fight, and the father was with Dalai Taiji from Duerbert's department. Even the mediation could not be persuaded. With the support of the Turhu Special Department, Chu Huer killed his younger brother Bai Ba.

Then the father sent troops to attack Chuhuer, and Dalaitaiji of Duerbote's department also joined the battle, and together attacked the Turghute's department.

It was originally a matter of dividing the inheritance among the family, but it was abruptly pulled into a big melee among the three Oirats, which continued until the first year of Chongzhen, and the Torghuts went west to the Volga River because of this.

Up to now, if Dalai Taiji is asked who the person he hates the most, Feng Ru, who surrounds him in Daqingshan, has to take second place, and Chu Huer won without any suspense.

But what surprised Dalaitaiji was that even after hearing his introduction to Chuhuer, Liu Chengzong was still very happy, which made him wonder: "Marshal, why are you dissatisfied with Huntaiji? "

dissatisfied?

Liu Chengzong was also puzzled: "Why do you ask that?"

Shouldn't it be why he made such a statement?
Recently, Da Lai was almost obsessed with learning Chinese, he shook his head slightly, and then said: "Didn't the commander want to use Chu Hu'er to provoke the relationship between him and Hui Taiji?"

"What did I provoke him to do? I'm happy because of Oirat's manifest."

Liu Chengzong shook his head with a smile. The goods delivered by Batur Huntaiji were similar to what was agreed at the time, but because the trade route was blocked, the originally planned Persian brocade, silk, and Bukhara gems and other goods were more than expected. less.

But correspondingly, more furs and livestock were brought in than planned.

[-] sand fox and yellow fox skins, [-] ermine skins, [-] sheep skins, [-] snowsweeping skins, [-] wolf skins, [-] mink skins, [-] lynx skins, three One hundred leopard skins, one hundred white rabbit skins.

The hides they transported alone are larger than the total amount of furs traded by the Marshal's Mansion in a year.

Not to mention that there are [-] Tianshan war horses brought in, which can provide a great boost to the marshal's Longju Island war horse breeding.

The most important thing is that the [-] sheep and [-] cattle that have arrived in Jiayuguan have not enough food to meet their urgent needs; if there is enough food, Gansu's animal husbandry will soon reach a new level in two or three years. The problem of Liangzhou City was solved before, and the north-south trade route was opened, and the pastoral camp of the Marshal's Mansion will be able to recover next year.

Compared with these, even if there were seven or eight more Chu Hu'er, Liu Chengzong would not feel unhappy.

Dalai Taiji asked: "Then the Grand Marshal isn't worried about him? This is a barbarian that his six relatives don't recognize."

"What am I worried about? He killed his brother, and I'm not his brother."

Liu Chengzong blinked incomprehensibly: "What's more, he is just unreasonable, not stupid, is he stupid?"

Dalai shook his head: "It's just that I'm short-tempered."

"That's fine. If you are impatient with others, you are impatient; if you are impatient with me in the northwest, you are stupid." After Liu Chengzong said, he clapped his hands excitedly, and said to Dalai: "Go, come with me to meet him!"

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)