Jia Yujing of Red Mansion

Chapter 38 Tatar invasion
An hour later, all the ministers gathered in the south study room, and everyone quickly circulated Wei Wentong's report.

Emperor Longqing looked around at the ministers and asked, "What do you think of this information?"

Sima Xian, Grand Scholar of Wuyingdian and Minister of War, first said: "Your Majesty, the gathering of Mongolian tribes at this time is indeed an abnormal situation, and I feel that I have to take precautions.

Ningxia Town, Yulin Town, and Guyuan Town should be ordered to strengthen preparedness immediately.

Adjust the defenses, strengthen the walls and clear the fields, waiting for the enemy to come. "

Luo Jin, a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion and Minister of Household Affairs, immediately objected: "Sir Sima, this information is just the inference of Xu Shan and Jia Qiong.

The authenticity has not yet been determined. How can we move the army lightly, strengthen the walls and clear the country?
If the intelligence is wrong, it will waste people and money.

Your Majesty, I thought I could just order all the towns to strengthen their defenses, and wait until more accurate information is available before responding. "

Xie Qian, the bachelor of Dongge University and the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, objected: "Sir Luo, when we have accurate information, the Mongols may have already reached our doorstep.

When the time comes, Bianzhen hastily responds to the challenge, and one can imagine the consequences. "

Luo Jin retorted: "The enemy's situation is unknown now. If we adjust our defenses easily, what if the Mongols attack from other directions?"

Emperor Longqing saw that the three cabinet academicians had different opinions and could not make up his mind for a while.

Then he looked at Zhang Chunyang, the chief minister of the cabinet, the bachelor of Zhongji Palace, and Li Shirui, the second assistant of the cabinet, the bachelor of Jianji Palace.

"Mr. Zhang Ge, Mr. Li Ge, how do you think we should respond?"

Li Shirui first said: "Your Majesty, I think we should prepare early. The military situation is urgent and it is not appropriate to delay."

Zhang Chunyang paused and said, "Your Majesty, the situation is still unclear. It is better to remain silent than to move."

Among the five members of the current cabinet, Sima Xian and Li Shirui were both elected to the cabinet by Wang Mu, while Xie Qian remained neutral.

Zhang Chunyang is the chief assistant, and his only ally is Luo Jin, the Minister of Household Affairs. Naturally, he wants to speak for Luo Jin.

At this time, the former military commander of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, Wang Shuirong of Beijing County, came out and said: "Your Majesty, I think that the Mongols are uncharacteristically gathering men and horses at a time when they should be raising livestock, and they must have a big plan.

If precautions were not taken early, the people on the border might suffer heavy losses.

It is better to let Ningxia Town clear its walls first, and the other two towns to take precautions first.

At the same time, scouts were ordered to build temporary beacon towers in the Helan Mountain area. Once traces of enemy troops were discovered, they would immediately light the beacon warning to buy enough time for the people to move. "

Wang Ziteng, the newly appointed military governor of Beijing Camp, also agreed: "I think what Prince Beijing said is absolutely true. In addition, Beijing Camp should also be prepared to send troops."

Emperor Longqing nodded and said: "This policy is very sound. According to the words of King Beijing and Wang Jiedu, we first sent an order to Ningxia to clear the country.

The other two towns and the capital camp were each prepared to defend themselves against the enemy.

In addition, the border towns were ordered to send more scouts into the enemy's territory to detect the enemy's situation as soon as possible. "

The Chu court responded quickly, but the Mongolian army moved faster.

They robbed and killed the caravan to prevent the news from being leaked. When Jia Qiong and the others found out, the army had basically been assembled, so they did not buy the border town much time.

South of Chang'an City, Weishui Wharf.

Shen Biyun and Xu Weirui boarded a luxury passenger ship chartered by the Wang family and began to set sail south.

Wang Mu had been stranded in Beijing for three years after begging for his bones.

The old man became increasingly homesick, and Emperor Longqing could no longer force him to stay, so he finally agreed to let him go back to his hometown.

Although the Langya Wang family originated in Langya County, Shandong, during the Yongjia Rebellion in the late Western Jin Dynasty, the Langya Wang family migrated south from Linyi Yiguan and moved their entire family to Jinling.

After crossing to the south, because of missing my hometown, I always called the land in the north by its name.

During the reign of Emperor Yuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the place where the Wang family gathered was specially designated as Nanlangya County.

Therefore, the ancestral home of the Wang family is now in Nanjing, just like the Jia family.

This time Wang Mu returns to his hometown, Wang Hun's family will also follow him.

Wang Mu is getting old. He only has three sons, and at least one needs to be kept by his side to take care of them.

The eldest son and the second son are both serving as officials, and only Wang Hun can follow and serve him.

Therefore, Jia Qiong arranged for her aunt and cousin to take the family's servants with them to the south of the Yangtze River by boat with the Wang family, so that they could have someone to take care of them on the way.

As for the house in Guihua Lane, only a few servants were left to take care of it.

When the Wang family's ship left the Weishui pier, six hundred miles of urgent documents reporting the massive Mongolian invasion also arrived at the same time.

For a time, Chang'an City was shrouded in the haze of war.In the summer and May of the 14th year of Longqing, Chahan Timur, the new king of the Mongolian Tatar tribe, came to the throne.

In order to establish prestige, Chahan decided to gather all his troops to invade the Central Plains.

In June, 15 Mongolian cavalry gathered at the foot of Helan Mountain, and then brazenly launched troops to attack the Dachu border.

This is the largest invasion launched by the Mongols in the past 30 years.

In just one day, an astonishing number of Mongolian troops broke through the weak northwest defense line of Ningxia Town and entered the hinterland of Ningxia from Zhenyuan Pass.

Five days ago, Ningxia Town had just begun the work of strengthening walls and clearing fields, and there were still some villages that had not yet been relocated.

The vast Ningxia Plateau instantly became a hunting ground for the Mongolian army, causing heavy losses.

But compared to the huge army dispatched, this harvest could not satisfy the appetite of the new Tatar king.

After there was really no money to be made in Ningxia, Chahan was unwilling to order the army to divide into two groups.

He personally led the main force all the way south and invaded Guyuan Town, the fertile hinterland of the Central Plains.

And his younger brother, Youxian King Tuokuo Timur, led [-] partial troops and attacked Yulin Town eastward.

10,000+ cavalry invaded, and for a time the land of the Central Plains was filled with smoke and war.

At this time, Jia Qiong and the other three were galloping across the Hetao Plain, heading north.

They planned to go all the way north to explore the Tatar King's Court at the foot of Yin Mountain, and then turn east and head straight to Taiyuan.

The nine bends of the Yellow River are only rich.

God's miraculous workmanship used the Yellow River to write several characters on the land of China, and also created the rich fortress of Jiangnan.

This is the place where King Wuling of Zhao, wearing barbarian clothes, riding and shooting, restructured and prospered the country.

It was also where Meng Tian cultivated land and built the Great Wall in the north, but the Huns were [-] miles away.

Su Wu herded sheep, Wen Ji returned to Han, Zhaojun left the fortress, and Han Wu defeated the Xiongnu with three victories.

Scenes of soul-stirring Han epics have been staged here, but today the Hetao Plain is the territory of the Mongolian Tatar tribe.

Except for bandits who lick blood and businessmen chasing wealth, few people from the Central Plains dare to come here.

The reason why Jia Qiong and the other three boldly crossed the Hetao Plain was because they discovered anomalies when they followed Jin Yiwei into the grassland to explore.

They found that most of the young and middle-aged herdsmen on the Hetao grassland had been drafted away, and almost all the remaining ones were women, children, old and young.

They quickly made a bold conclusion, that is, the Tatars had already fled!
This means that the Hetao grassland is now extremely empty. These tribes will disperse into small camps for grazing.

As long as they are careful and avoid areas where tribes gather, they won't encounter much danger.

This was a golden opportunity, and Jia Qiong and Xu Shan immediately decided to change their route.

First explore the situation on the Hetao grassland, and then rush directly to Taiyuan Town.

Wei Wentong sneaked back to Ningxia Town with the information, preparing to find a way to send the news back to the court.

Jia Qiong and the others planned to rush directly to Taiyuan and persuade Taiyuan's commander-in-chief Yang Zhenye to send troops out of Yanmen Pass and attack the hinterland of Hetao from behind to relieve the danger in the Central Plains.

If we follow the original plan and go from Yulin to Taiyuan, we have to cross the Loess Plateau where the road is rugged and difficult to navigate, and we won't even be able to reach it in less than a month.

Jia Qiong is quite sure whether Yang Zhenye will be persuaded by them.

The garrison general at the border of Dachu has great autonomy. In times of emergency, he can mobilize his troops for combat without the approval of the Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Governor's Office.

Because most border towns are isolated, reporting to the capital takes too long.

Without the right to make arbitrary decisions when the opportunity arises, it is easy to delay the opportunity for combat.

Although Yang Zhenye is over fifty years old, he is one of the few battlefield veterans in the Chu army.

Not to mention his strategic vision, Jia Qiong did not believe that he would give up this opportunity to make great achievements.

Another very important point is that Yang Zhenye was born in Jingying and served under Jia Daihua for more than ten years. He was an old member of the Jia family.

His ability to achieve the position of second-grade general soldier was inseparable from Jia Daihua's appreciation and promotion.

Jia Qiongning's identity as the direct grandson of Duke Guo should also play some role.

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