A knife in love

Chapter 2755
While Zhang Gui was talking, he was staring at the situation in the wilderness below the mountain.I saw three groups of horse troops running back and forth among the Japanese pirates, killing the Japanese pirates and fleeing in embarrassment, and they were already defeated.Seeing this, Zhang Gui felt complacent, twitched the corners of his mouth, and continued, "I set up an army in Huainan against the Emperor Taizu, defeated Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng successively, and took General Xu Da as the commander and General Chang Yuchun as the deputy commander. Leading an army of 20 to conquer the Tartars in the north. General Xu used his troops like a god, and General Chang was brave and invincible. The two generals led the army all the way to the city of Beijing and drove the Tartar Emperor out of the Great Wall. Later, Emperor Taizu sent another army After leaving the pass, they wiped out all the Tartar soldiers stationed outside the pass. The Jurchens took the opportunity to intercept and kill the defeated Tartar soldiers and obtained a lot of weapons and armor. After the barbarians snatched the armaments, they were eager to move, and even tried to fight against the Ming Dynasty, and even planned to re-enter the Central Plains to seize world.

"It's just that the barbarians are brave, but how can I be the opponent of the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? In the first battle, the barbarians were defeated, and almost all the leaders and bosses were beheaded by the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Only then did the remaining barbarians know that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were far more powerful than the Tartars. Powerful, in order to save their lives, they surrendered to Ming Dynasty one after another. Emperor Taizu set up the Liaodong Metropolitan Commander outside the pass to govern all the places outside the pass. The Liaodong Metropolitan Commander divided the Jurchens who surrendered to Daming into more than [-] groups, and sowed discord among them. The division and disintegration made it impossible to resist the imperial court. Since then, the power of the Jurchens has declined greatly, and internal strife has continued, making them unable to resist the imperial court. In addition, the barbarians competed to flatter the commander of the Liaodong capital in order to protect themselves and not be annexed by other Jurchen tribes. The commander of Liaodong capital took the opportunity to divide and rule the barbarians so that they would not dare to have a slight dissent.

"If the Commander of the Liaodong Capital suppressed the barbarians according to the plan set by Emperor Taizu, these guys would not be able to make any troubles at all. Unexpectedly, during the reign of Yingzong, the civil fortress happened suddenly, and the three major battalions of the capital were wiped out. In order to resist The Oala army that entered the pass urgently transferred officers and soldiers from all over the country to the king of Jingqin. All the capable soldiers stationed outside the pass were transferred back to the pass by the imperial court, and the rest were old and weak soldiers who could not be used. With no generals and no soldiers, they were in a difficult situation facing the harassment of the Tartars. Later, someone came up with an idea, saying that the barbarians were brave and good at fighting, so we might as well give them some benefits and ask them to help the court deal with the Tartars..."

When Zhang Gui said this, Qi Jiu's heart shuddered, thinking to himself that this is really a bad idea!Whoever came up with this idea should be dragged out and beheaded.When the Jin Kingdom was strong and prosperous in the past, the Tartars surrendered to the Jin people.In order to deal with the tribes of the grassland, the Kingdom of Jin promised benefits to the Tartars, asking them to send troops to help the Jin people deal with the tribes that refused to surrender.Jin Guo's move is tantamount to raising a tiger to cause trouble.Temujin's tribe became stronger day by day by taking advantage of the opportunity to attack each other with various tribes, and finally destroyed the Kingdom of Jin.The governor of Liaodong and the general army of Liaodong wanted to use the Jurchens to deal with the Tartars, which was the same as the Jin State's practice of raising tigers in the past, and it must cause a catastrophe.

While Qi Jiu was thinking about it, he only heard Zhang Gui continue to say: "After the Tumu Fortress War, Daming was no longer able to march north, so he could only retreat and defend himself. However, the Tartars were unable to capture Xuanfu and Datong, and could not enter the Great Wall. Instead, they often harassed Liaodong. Looting money and killing people. The guards outside the pass are lonely and alone, barely able to protect themselves. They sit back and watch the Tartar soldiers domineering, but they are at a loss. It was not until the governor of Liaodong and the general army of Liaodong recruited the barbarians to contribute to the court. Blocked the Tartar soldiers. The barbarians are good at riding and shooting, and they are more powerful than the Tartar soldiers. Often a few hundred people can defeat thousands of Tartar soldiers. A Tartar's head can be exchanged for five renminbi. For five renminbi, the barbarian is like a devil. Once on the battlefield, he will go crazy and chase and kill the Tartar soldiers. In the end, the barbarians not only kill the Tartar soldiers, but also the Tartar soldiers. The parents and children of the soldiers are also killed. It’s just that the heads of these old and weak Tartars are not as valuable as Tartar soldiers, and each head can only be exchanged for two renminbi.”

When everyone heard this, they understood why those knights dismounted and cut off the heads of the Japanese pirates in the midst of the chaotic army after they killed them.Li Qiufeng thought to himself, when I was in the middle of Sichuan, my master told me the story of the rise of the Qin people.In the past, the people of Qin lived in the west, the country was small and the people were poor, so they could only be bullied by other vassal states.Later, a minister named Shang Yang gave King Qin an idea, asking King Qin to reward farming and war, so that the people could desperately contribute to Qin.The king of Qin followed Shang Yang's idea and issued an order that when the soldiers confronted the enemy, they would use the enemy's head as a token. In addition to receiving silver rewards, each head could also get a title, and the family members could also be exempted from paying taxes.As a result, the morale of the Qin army was greatly boosted, and everyone wanted to go to battle to kill the enemy and exchange the enemy's heads for benefits.When soldiers and horses from other vassal states encountered the Qin army, they could only be beaten passively, and in the end they were all wiped out by Qin.Liaodong governor's yamen and Liaodong general army's yamen use the Jurchens to deal with the Tartars, which is similar to the method Shang Yang came up with in the past.

I only heard Zhang Gui continue to say: "After I went to Liaodong to serve as the general soldier, I also spent a lot of money to hire barbarians to fight against the Tartars. This time I went to Dongliao County to fight Japanese pirates, and I sent three to fourteen barbarian tribes. Thousands and seven hundred taels of silver, and after the promise is fulfilled, each tribe will have many benefits. The barbarians were ecstatic when they saw the silver. The fourteen tribes sent a total of 700 troops and 370 horses. The officials went to Dongliao County together. Although the number of barbarians who rushed to Dongliao County was only more than 350, far less than the Japanese pirates, there is a saying outside the pass that the number of barbarians is no more than [-], and if there are more than [-], they are invincible. The rest of the barbarian cavalry is something that has never happened since the fall of the Kingdom of Jin. Looking at the situation at the foot of the mountain, although there are more than [-] Japanese pirates, they can't stop the wild attack of the barbarians. Within an hour, the Japanese pirates will be There are so many casualties. We don’t need to do it ourselves, we just need to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and we can win a big victory, wouldn’t it be great?!”

After Zhang Gui finished speaking, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to say for a while.Murong Danyan, Wang Xiaoyu and the nuns of Yongtai Temple didn't know about military and state affairs. After hearing Zhang Gui's words, they thought that he could defeat the Japanese pirates without using a single soldier from the Ming court. They felt bad for Zhang Gui. Kind of admire.Wang Xiaoyu even thought to himself, it turned out that the ancestors of these barbarians were big villains such as Jin Wushu and Ha Michi, no wonder they were so cruel and fierce.Those surnamed Zhang use these savages to kill the Japanese pirates, let them bite the dog, but we can stand on the top of the old man's mountain and reap the benefits of the fisherman. This is indeed a good idea.It seems that although the surname Zhang is despicable, it is not without merit.Hearing what he said just now, after Manzi defeated the Japanese pirates, he will definitely find a way to deal with Manzi.Hmph, the ancestors of the barbarians killed the great hero Yue Fei and killed countless Han people.It is best that the one surnamed Zhang resorted to poisonous tricks and killed the barbarians to extinction, which can be regarded as avenging the dead grandfather Yue and the Han people who died under the golden man's butcher's knife.

(End of this chapter)