stubborn thief

More than 17,000 Houjin troops who crossed the Yellow River conducted a four-day hunt with great fanfare in northern Ordos.

Almost all the prey that could be caught was caught, and the harvest was very fruitful.

This was actually Dorgon's way of venting his anger, and his inner frustration was very strong.

At first, he did not dare to go deep into the Mu Us Desert and attack Yulin Town. After all, the desert was too variable. If he was attacked from both sides, he could not be sure to deal with Yang Qi and the Yulin Town Ming Army at the same time.

Secondly, since Yang Qi did not leave the city, he was not sure that he could capture Guihua City, which had sufficient defenders, without heavy artillery and siege weapons.

Guihua City is not difficult to defeat. The city has been captured three or five times, but there has never been a defender who knows how to defend the city. The Mongolian army has always been defeated in field battles outside the city, and then the city was breached.

But Yang Qi obviously wouldn't fight like this.

Thirdly, he really didn't have time to spend time with Yang Qi here. This army must return to Shenyang before the Liao River freezes.

But in the final analysis, the most important thing is that the rabbits and pheasants in Ordos gave Dorgon a way out.

With a way out, you can have the energy to consider whether the plan is risky.

Without this escape route, even if Dorgon was unwilling to do so, no matter whether he faced the Monan Mongolian army or Yulin Town, and no matter how he fought his way out of Yulin Town after the war and risked being surrounded by Yang Qi, he would not be able to do so. I can only bite the bullet and pursue it.

Otherwise, whether it is the Eight Banners Army, Banner Slaves, or the vassal Mongolian army... no one hopes that they will starve to death. At most, they will just scatter and flee to Ningxia, Monan and other places to beg for food. If not, they will do it themselves first. Lose.

Not to mention that there are some guys in the army who are not very clear-headed.

I'm talking about you, with a bunch of Hauge wearing Japanese armor to protect the army!

This time when he sent troops, Dorgon really discovered that there was something wrong with Hauge's brain.

Faced with the risk of running out of food, the conservative advice of people like Guru Siqibu, Saharian, Badali and others was to temporarily withdraw their troops and march into Xuanda University. After all, they had entered Xuanda University last year and were now considered human beings. Already cooked.

Grabbing a wave and returning to Shenyang is not considered returning without success.

The more radical approach would be to raid Ningxia and open a new map if Guihua City is difficult to defeat.

All in all, everyone was in a hurry, but Hauge, who had strange bones, was not anxious at all. He even told his subordinates that if the army runs out of food and cannot return, don't run around and follow me. I will find a way to get food for you. Even Maybe we can even get a place to recuperate and survive the winter.

His subordinates asked him what he could do, but he didn't say anything.

Dorgon thought the child looked like a fool.

No one would have guessed what he was doing. He was just leading a group of people with yellow flags under their hands to wander west and ask for some food from Mr. Liu.

Of course, it's not that Dorgon didn't believe that Hauge couldn't do it, he could definitely do it.

If Liu Chengzong had a son and brought a thousand people to have a meal with Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji would be extremely happy and entertain him with delicious food and drinks.

Question, is this a solution that a normal person can come up with?

Isn’t this a fucking trap?

But Hauge didn't think there was anything wrong with his thinking. Although Dorgon was his uncle, this uncle was a sick man.

Like many Jin nobles, he looked down upon Dorgon.

Of course, there is also a slight psychological reason. The name Hauge means small earlobes.

The Jurchen Zhushen are no less superstitious than the Han people. The size of earlobes is directly related to luck. Hauge thought that you always say that I am not lucky because I have small earlobes. My uncle, who has been sick since childhood, is the real unlucky person.

So this time when Dorgon sent troops, Hauge was full of complaints. He kept saying things like, 'We will soon run out of food and starve to death', 'Why are the Chahar Tatars so powerful after following the Marshal's Mansion?' and so on. Weird words for morale.

He was thinking at this moment, it was your Dorgon's order to rush all the way, and now you can pursue him into the desert, but you don't pursue him. If it leads to a food shortage, Father Khan will blame him, and all the problems will be your fault, uncle.

I just need to keep my troops with the yellow flag.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the idea of ​​​​looking for Liu Chengzong's father to eat and drink after the defeat is not surprising.

But no matter what, now that he has this batch of prey, at least Dorgon can continue to control this army and go home. At worst, he can carve a jade seal to pass down the country on the way.

As for what this silly boy thinks in his heart, he can do whatever he likes.

But Dorgon didn't know that on the Wula Mountain on the other side of the Yellow River, when he saw the Hou Jin army hunting, Yang Qi breathed a sigh of relief as if he had survived the disaster, patted his butt and returned to Huacheng to prepare for war.

Governor Yang of Monan was not as sure of victory as the tone in the letter. In fact, he was so panicked that his calves twisted.

He was too afraid that Dorgon would lead his troops to chase south with all their strength.

Because he is familiar with this place.

Dorgon's soldiers and horses really headed into the Mu Us Sea, relying on the sun to determine the direction. It would only take four or five days, and there was no danger of water shortage, and it would not be as scary as it seemed.

They all know their own affairs. Although Yang Qi's order has been issued, his Monan Governor's Mansion is not monolithic. Can the Mongolian soldiers and horses obey his orders and drive their livestock to cut through the border wall and enter the Ming Dynasty... He Not really sure.

What's more, if E Linchen and others really throw away the livestock and human beings to Yulin Town, Yang Qi is not sure whether they can get them back or snatch them back.

If Dorgon really goes south, the order has been given, and things will definitely happen like this to a certain extent, but that is not Yang Qi's original intention.

He is blackmailing Dorgon.

It's best if you don't pursue me. If you do pursue me, we will hurt each other. If I lose, you won't be able to make any profit.

On the other hand, as long as Dorgon doesn't dive into the Mu Us Sea, he can do whatever he wants. Hunting is no problem, going to Ningxia Town is no big deal, or even running over to besiege Guihua City and beat up Yang Qi. pause.

For Yang Qi...it's also great!

He didn't care at all whether the Hou Jin army lived or died, whether they could capture the livestock and human population, or whether they returned to Shenyang with a full load.

Yang Qi only cares about the livestock and people that the Monan Governor's Mansion snatched from the Harashen tribe.

Because these things are the basis of his next plan, the Monan Governor's Mansion will build a pile of earth forts in Langshan, Yinshan, Daqingshan, and even outside Jining to Zhangjiakou.

The location and system have been planned, and they can be implemented as soon as Hou Jin retires.

With these things in place, if the Jin army wants to get involved in Monan in the future, at least it won't be so easy.

But that's all for the future. In fact, Dorgon hunting on the spot is even more dangerous for Yang Qi, who is currently in Guihua City.

After all, if he puts himself in his shoes, if he were faced with such a situation, he would definitely not be willing to send out troops with great fanfare but achieve nothing.

However, Yang Qi's preparations were not in Guihua City. Instead, he began to recite the curse to Yang Sichang, the governor of Shanxi.

During the few days of Dorgon's hunting, the messenger cavalry from Guihua City to the Shanxi border almost formed a line, knocking on the gates day and night.

Yang Sichang is now in Datong.

Dorgon led his troops to the west via Jining, and the Ming court took strict precautions. After last year's invasion, Chongzhen spent a lot of money to form an army specifically to prepare slaves. Now he is quite gearing up.

While Yang Sichang was in Shanxi, his main job in the past few months was to read the border defense status. How should I put it, in terms of the border defense army, it can only be said to be make-do.

The pressure on Shanxi's border wall guards was not too great. In the Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi border wall was divided into two sections. One section was east of Ningwuguan and Yangfang. Because it was protected by Datong and Xuanfu towns outside, it was called the slow border. .

The other section is to the west of Ningwuguan, including Lilaoying, Shuiquan, Pianguan, Hequ and Baode, adjacent to the Hetao, and is called Jibian.

In terms of the system, regardless of the priority, there is one pier for five miles, and there are five piers in one pier. Each household has five or six acres of land. They make a home nearby, cultivate and harvest, and are born here, raised here, and buried here. All beacon fire matters are compiled into song formulas, so that Xiao Dunjun can learn them since he was a child, and he can call the police according to the formulas in case of trouble.

This system was passed down from Qi Jiguang in Jizhen.

But the system is the system, and the reality is the reality.

Today, only Shanhaiguan can preserve this system intact.

In the past, both Gansu and Jizhen were well preserved, but both places had historical reasons and had little connection with people.

Gansu is well preserved because, like Liaodong, Gansu is still the simplest military town. The military household system there did not deteriorate too much until Liu Chengzong entered Gansu.

In the entire military town, except for the border soldiers, there are the flag troops, and the common people are all military relatives and military remnants. There are no civilians. No matter how corrupt it is, ancestors have been doing these jobs for generations. Corruption is only in the direction of poverty. The military system is difficult Corrupted.

But Gansu's military system, including the general, deputy, tour, and town garrison... were abolished by Liu Chengzong.

He doesn't have time to raise an army, so who should he guard against?

All the camp troops, banner troops, and Dun troops that could be organized were incorporated into the fighting troops by Cao Yao. Those who stayed in Gansu have also been transformed into counties. There is no Dun army anywhere.

The reason for the corruption of the Dun Tai tradition in Ji Town is that the Dun troops used by Qi Jiguang in the past were Yiwu soldiers and Nan soldiers who had moved over. The cost of supplementary recruitment of Nan soldiers was relatively high. Later, when the Ming Dynasty's finances deteriorated, they recruited border residents or used Prisoners were sent into the army to serve as the army.

This means that the new pier army will not be stationed on the pier platform for generations like the moved southern soldiers.

Lord Wanli is slacking in government affairs, and his officials are no longer available, so who will support the army?

On the Shanhaiguan side, because it has always been valued, the Dunjun army has always been the descendant of the Nanbing soldiers who moved here. The system is very well preserved, which can be regarded as a legacy left by Qi Jiguang.

The situation in Shanxi is rather special. The system is still there, and most of the Dunjun troops are also there. They are prisoners of war or border residents. Although there are many Duntian fields belonging to the Dunjun troops, there are still some.

But what was a little embarrassing was that Yang Sichang discovered that... the pier was gone.

From Shuiquan Yingbao in Jibian to the south to the provincial capital Taiyuan, there is a pier for five miles along the way. Some are collapsed, abandoned, and some were demolished due to the peasant army war. In short, the beacon fire at the border can only be transmitted to Beijing. Shanxi provincial capital cannot receive it.

However, all the Dunjun troops are there. Near the abandoned piers, they only cultivate the Dunland given by the government and do not let the government do the work of the Dunjun troops.

Yang Sichang originally wanted to focus on building the piers and platforms, which could be postponed a little later.

After all, the pier and the platform are all next to the official road. The plague that is currently raging in Shanxi is still there, and he does not dare to recruit civilians on a large scale.

As long as he did not recruit civilians on a large scale, although the plague was fierce, it would not become a prairie fire.

After all, the pimple plague is too strong, and people's normal range of activities is very limited. Where there is nothing, it is usually fine. Where there is trouble, there is usually no one around soon.

But the Hou Jin Army marched towards the Hetao, which made Yang Sichang worry again. There was no pier, and if the Hou Jin Army or Yang Qi's gang of fake Tatars in the Hetao rushed into the border wall, Governor Yang would be dead.

After all, there were no pier beacons, and the enemy troops were not aware of the invasion. When they rushed to the gate of Taiyuan City, the officers and soldiers would have been defeated in a hurry to resist. The city was broken, and Governor Yang would not survive.

The city was not destroyed, but Master Chongzhen pursued the case afterwards, but Governor Yang was still in danger of losing his life.

Therefore, two evils are at odds with each other. The demons and demons outside the border are much more terrifying than the plague. So we had to recruit civilians to build the piers and platforms first.

Yang Sichang has discovered two patterns.

First, when the plague breaks out, rats will jump into the Yellow River in droves.

Second, when a plague breaks out, Yang Qi will send someone to deliver a message to him.

Sure enough, Yang Sichang recruited civilians to repair the pier, and Yang Qi's fake Tatars rode a horse to deliver the letter.

Yang Sichang was already quite fat, like a Maitreya Buddha in official robes.

Now that I saw the letter stamped with the angel's seal, my plump cheeks twitched and trembled unconsciously, and the corners of my eyes were wrinkled with worry.

He finally figured out that this bitch Yang Qi had no good intentions and would not give up until Marshal Wen killed the first governor of the Ming Dynasty in anger.

But when I opened the letter, there was really something Yang Sichang wanted to see.

For example, Yang Qi was asking for help, saying that he might be killed by Dorgon.

Yang Sichang looked at the letter, his plump cheeks trembled unconsciously, and he smiled happily.

Yang Sichang was not disgusted with being fat. He was very accepting of his body shape. As early as when he was a professor in Hangzhou Prefecture, he gave himself the nickname Fat Man.

Later, I went to Nanjing Imperial College to work as a doctor. I became obsessed with fasting and chanting Buddha's name. I became a little isolated from the masses, so I changed my nickname from Fat Man to Fat Lay Buddhist.

Yang Qi and Dorgon, these two guys are fighting outside of their mouths. For Yang Sichang, it's a dog-eat-dog situation. It's best if both of them die on the battlefield, God has mercy.

Yang Sichang didn't hesitate to reply to the letter. Quan Dang saw it as a joke, but he didn't expect that when he entered Datong City and his chair was still warm, Yang Qi's letter came again.

Not only was Yang Sichang disgusted this time, but Ye Tinggui, the governor of Datong, was also anxious. He patted the table and said: "How can this mangy dog ​​get access to the angel's seal? Fat man, I think it's better to tell the emperor that from now on the border will not let this person's letters in." !”

In the entire Shanxi and Xuanda defense lines, the person who disliked Yang Qi the most was Ye Tinggui.

Ye Tinggui's resentment was not directed at Yang Qi, but towards Liu Chengzong, the commander directly under Yang Qi.

Ye Tinggui was a man of both civil and military skills. As early as the seventh year of Tianqi, he was preparing troops in Shanxi. He fought with the first wave of peasant armies for three months and did not flinch even if he was hit by an arrow in the chest.

Later, he was the successor of Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi. He served as a counselor in charge of the grain road in Shaanxi. He was quickly appreciated by Lian Guoshi and recommended him to Wu Di, the inspector sent by the emperor to provide disaster relief. Wu Di then went to Shanxi to serve as governor. He also brought him here to serve as an inspector.

In two months, Ye Tinggui handled more than 300 backlog cases and was called a thunderbolt by Wu Di.

But he always remembered that he became a feudal official because of Lian Guoshi's recommendation. Now Lian Guoshi was paralyzed by Liu Chengzong in Xi'an Mansion. When the news spread to Shanxi, Ye Tinggui always wanted to find an opportunity to help Lian Guoshi get revenge.

"That's not necessary."

Yang Sichang looked disgusted on his face, but he was still like a mirror in his heart. He opened the letter and said with a smile: "With Yang Qi at my side, it is much easier to use than our Dunjun."

As he spoke, the expression on his face suddenly froze, the relaxed look slowly faded, and he read the letter seriously.

Ye Tinggui hurriedly asked: "Junmen, what did the letter say?"

"The letter states that Dorgon will retreat within two months. At this time, morale is exhausted. If Shanxi Xuanda sends troops at this time, it can be destroyed at Fengzhou Beach!" (End of this chapter)