I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 529 It’s New Year’s Eve!

Litang, the base camp of Yongzheng, belongs to the valley plain and is backed by the Lichu River, a branch of the Yalong River. Whether it is water conservancy, transportation, or plain farmland, it is considered a rare good land in the Western Sichuan Plateau.

This is not only the case in Litang, but also in the rest of the western Sichuan soil tribes. If you look carefully, you will find that they are all more or less backed by a big river.

This is normal. The plateaus, mountains, rivers, and only a few river valleys and alluvial plains can cultivate land to support the Tibetan population.

Even the city of Lhasa in Tibet is located in a valley with an extremely low altitude on the plateau. It is impossible for people to live on the real plateau, and even future generations will rarely be able to go up there.

After some discussions with the emperor, the Tatars in Litang finally decided to lure the enemy deeper and then launch a decisive battle in the valley plains around Litang.

This is undoubtedly very risky, but the Tatars have no choice. The 300-mile straight-line distance from Litang to Yachuka is basically a small valley.

Let alone cavalry, even infantry is difficult to spread.

As for dividing the troops into ambushes, the Tatars themselves are a foreign population. The Ming army cannot adapt, and the Tatars cannot adapt either. Moreover, the Tatars' military strength did not support their division of troops for an ambush, and they were already about to fight a decisive battle. At this time, they were sending troops to divide their forces.

As for the Tibetan nobles, there is no need to count on them at all. Not only the Tatars cannot count on them, but the Ming army also does not count on these people.

Not to mention the weak combat effectiveness of the Tibetan soldiers, this is a war between the Tatars and the Han soldiers, and the Tibetan nobles are happy to stand aside. As long as their temples are not destroyed, it would be best if the Han soldiers and the Tatars kill both sides.

The Litang Tatars began to gather troops, and the Han returned to the Han, and the Manchus returned to the Manchus. The Han generals were represented by Yue Zhongqi, Zhang Wenhuan, and Zhang Guangsi, and the Manchu generals were jointly managed by Longko Duojia Nian Gengyao.

Although Nian Gengyao is a Han, he has been operating in the northwest for many years and has great influence in the military. He is also related to Yongzheng by marriage. To put it bluntly, he is Yongzheng's brother-in-law.

No matter whether this guy has ever raised the flag or not, he can't be clean, and the small group of Han generals also don't want to see him. Even Zhang Wenhuan has some relationship with the Han soldiers in Yunnan and Guizhou because he is old enough and has been the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou for several years.

Among the Tatar Han troops, the current main force is also the Han army from Yunnan and Guizhou. The Sichuan army died a lot when they first came to the Western Sichuan Plateau.

Han officials have become decorations. People like Zhang Tingyu were so favored in the past, but now they are marginalized.

Even Jiang Tingxi, who was personally promoted by Yongzheng and kept pace with Zhang Tingyu, died of illness in western Sichuan at the end of last year.

Cheap him!

"Commander Yue, the emperor has gathered all the troops to fight the Ming army in Litang. It is impossible to win this battle." Zhang Guangsi came to Yue Zhongqi and said.

Yue Zhongqi nodded: "I know, but this is the emperor's decree. How can we, the ministers, disobey the decree?"

Zhang Guangsi sneered: "Ministers... Haha, even now, the emperor is still unwilling to trust us Han generals. He is not even willing to raise the flag for Marshal Yue. What is the point of being protected by the Qing Dynasty? "

Yue Zhongqi was silent for a moment and asked, "Has Ming Ting contacted you for details?"

Zhang Guangsi's face froze and he denied: "No, why did Marshal Yue say this? The general is just fighting for the Marshal. We didn't dare to fight the Ming army in Sichuan. Now that we have retreated to a corner of Litang, how can we possibly fight? Win? The soldiers are not willing to die in a foreign land like this. Those whose robes were broken in Qinghai and the Western Regions, their bones are now buried in the desert."

Zhang Guangsi seemed to be talking to himself, and also seemed to be reminding Yue Zhongqi.

Yue Zhongqi's face remained as usual: "As the saying goes, if the king wants his minister to die, he must die, so go down and prepare! Moreover, the Ming army came all the way to the Kangzang Plateau. We had so many people die in the beginning. Even if the Ming army was fully prepared, it would not be possible." It would be too easy. I, the Qing Dynasty, may not have a chance!"

Zhang Guangsi frowned slightly. He wanted to say that the reason why so many people died was because they left in a hurry. Moreover, the saffron preparations were not sufficient, and in the end, less than two-thirds of the troops were able to receive saffron.

This is the root of the problem.

"I will retire at the end!"

Zhang Guangsi said nothing more and walked out of the handsome tent.

He said everything that needed to be said, and Ming Jun Xizuo had indeed contacted him. Then Zhang Guangsi agreed without hesitation. He is still young and has a good life ahead of him, and in just these few years, he has become worthy of the Qing Dynasty.

Whether it was quelling the rebellion of the Yunnan-Guizhou people, or helping the Qing Dynasty retreat to Kangzang, they also trained thousands of Yunnan-Guizhou elites for the Qing Dynasty.

Yongzheng's imperial favor was so great that he had already repaid it, at least that's what he thought.

Moreover, Zhang Guangsi thought that he had done a good enough job and never had any thoughts of surrender, but the Qing Dynasty still distrusted them, the Han troops, more and more.

Therefore, when the Ming army carefully tried to contact each other, the two sides naturally hit it off.

It is a routine operation to send agents to instigate rebellion before the war. Even if the Ming Dynasty does not intend to let anyone in Kang Zang go, it still needs to do what it needs to do to instigate rebellion. Even if it fails, it must disrupt the enemy's internal defense line.

But now, it is obvious that those plots to instigate rebellion were successful. Even Zhang Guangsi, a good general of the Han army, has begun to think about it, let alone others. Especially those Han officials who were gradually marginalized, almost most of them were instigated to rebel and secretly communicated information to the Ming army in the hope of making atonement for their crimes.

This is not because they have a low bottom line, but because the Tatars have gone too far.

In just a few years after retreating to Litang, countless people in the Hanguan Group died of illness and starvation.

Don't think it's outrageous. When Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty went into exile in the Eastern Capital, many officials starved to death.

The war is about to begin, but undercurrents are brewing within the Tatars.

That loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, "descendant of Yue Fei" Yue Zhongqi, was already aware of what Zhang Guangsi told him, but he said nothing and pretended not to know.

At this time, pretending to be deaf and dumb to each other can still maintain internal stability. If they are exposed, it will immediately become an internal rebellion. They will collapse without the Ming army to fight.

The hearts of the people are lost, and there are internal and external troubles!

As for the situation in Litang, Zheng Dingrui didn't know that after crossing the river, this guy began to slowly set up camp and gather the Tibetan tribesmen.

The Tibetan aristocrats did not reject the arrival of the Ming army, because the Han people did not ask them to send troops to help, but only bought their food and horses, and temporarily leased their slaves to serve as husbandmen and take care of the food.

This doubled the favor of the Tibetan nobles. Anyway, they must be much better than the Tatars, and the Han people did not destroy or plunder their temples.

Zheng Dingrui led his troops to Kangzang, and he kept giving orders not to loot, especially those temples.

Temples are the lifeblood of these Tibetan nobles and their religious beliefs. If you can't help but touch them, don't touch them.

Zheng Dingrui doesn't care about marching without fighting. As an old brother who started his career with the emperor, he can even be regarded as a partner. His current title is Marquis of E, which is much more formal than the original title. There is also Marquis. Register.

There is no need to rush to make meritorious deeds. As long as the main force can be preserved without too much loss, then it is credit. The Ming army's deployment for this battle is not limited to his army.

If you can attack from both sides and win safely, there is no need to take risks.

So what if you achieve victory through meritorious service? It’s great to be promoted to the title of Duke!

Ten years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the era of risk-taking and desperate efforts has passed. Now, as long as you follow the established strategy and fight steadily, you can easily win.

This is a change brought about by the improvement of national power, and there are also changes in the war model, and the dimensionality reduction attack of hot weapon troops on cold weapon troops.

(End of this chapter)