stubborn thief

Chapter 272 Seven Counties

The army was defeated like a mountain.

In one day, the two battalions surrendered and died, and only one army was left alone. They collected the remnants of the defeated soldiers and the chabaduiqiong who transported supplies. They violated King Bailey's military orders and were chased by the lion army. Run eastward.

In the high mountains and deep valleys on the border between Nangqian and Baili that have not been walked for many years, the thorns growing everywhere were made smooth by the defeated soldiers in a day.

In the end they were stopped by the Jinsha River, and the whole army was annihilated, sounding the death knell of the Baili Kingdom.

Liu Chengzong sent an ultimatum to Malkang, informing Dunyue Duoji that the army was marching. If Dunyue Duoji surrendered everything and surrendered, he still had a chance to get a manor to spend the rest of his life in peace.

But Dunyue Dorje did not accept his good intentions, and the Lion Army marched towards Duogan with Li Laojie as the vanguard. Before reaching Maerkang, Dunyue Dorji ran away in a hurry under the protection of his own soldiers and fled into the Songpan Grassland.

Zhang Tianlin went to pursue him, but did not find Dunyue Dorji until he had a face-to-face meeting with Songpan Mingjun, and Zhang Tianlin retreated.

The conquest of the Baili nobles in Maerkang went smoothly, especially the chieftains of Naizhu and Shaerke in the southern part of the Baili territory, who were the former homes of two ten thousand households, were particularly eager to surrender to Liu Chengzong.

Liu Chengzong felt strange about this situation. According to the experience he learned in the war, these nobles would rather fight him than surrender. Why now they come to see him with gifts, and they are willing to give them a place to live. What about surrender?
Ah Liu, the new general who joined the Lion Army, gave the answer: "Generalissimo, most of them have lost their territory."

Ah Liu's guess was accurate.

When these nobles arrived in Malkang, the chieftain envoys from Zagu, Jinchuan and other places came later, and sent congratulatory gifts to Liu Chengzong in the name of Lijiang Chieftain Muyi, and by the way, showed their merits.

It is of course the credit for attacking the chieftains in Wasi and other places. For a while, both sides gathered in Malkang, which made Liu Chengzong very troubled.

The territories of these little chieftains are all on the border between Bai Li and Lijiang Mu clan chieftains, and they used to fight each other wearing the tiger skins of King Bai Li and King Mu Tian.

This time, taking advantage of Dunyue Dorji's stubborn resistance to Liu Chengzong, the chieftain in the south launched a massive attack to the north and achieved unprecedented results.

It was a group of vultures feasting on Bai Li's corpse.

Liu Chengzong has no energy to manage them.

Many nobles in Baili's hometown died or fled during the war. Without any control.

On the one hand, he selected a group of soldiers who had performed outstandingly in the war from the Lion Army, and at the same time sent an order for Basang to lead the army into Baili, preparing to reorganize several official teams.

On the other hand, they sent someone to find Taiji, who was stationed in Chamdo, and asked him to send some Mongolian troops to maintain law and order.

Robbers and bandits are familiar with the terrain, and there are no more than dozens or no more than a few people, but they are everywhere, and his troops are limited. In this kind of security battle, the advantage of combat power will be drastically reduced, and it is not worth the loss for him.

Because of this, Liu Chengzong still had a good face to these little chieftains who were shy and asked for their merits. He didn't say much about their northward attack, but asked them to submit maps and the chieftains maintained the original borders.

Of course, this is just Liu Chengzong's statement. Whether the chieftain will hand over the map when the envoy returns is another matter.

He has no binding force on the chieftains in the south, and he doesn't have much thought to restrain them. At present, there is only one thing in his mind, digesting the results of the war as soon as possible.

After all, it is too far away from their base camp in Haibei, and the productivity is far less than that in northern Shaanxi. If you change to an army with no experience in traveling, it will collapse the moment the battle is over.

But even if the Lions have rich experience in fleeing, they are very close to the verge of command failure.

This is a very mysterious feeling, and there is no specific absolute expression, but Liu Chengzong can feel this emotion from the strong uneasiness shown by the soldiers.

When they set off, their purpose was to help Nangqian Gama get back the territory, and by the way, carry out some technical plunder and take away the artisans here.

That is to say, when the troops were sent out, they had no intention of capturing this place, but the war was won too easily, and without the fortress, the enemy army had almost no enemy.

Within ten months, he ruled thousands of miles of land in name, but he only had more than 5000 soldiers. Even if one person stood at a mile interval like Tangqi, he would not be able to stand eleven in this land.

This situation makes the soldiers feel uneasy from the bottom of their hearts, not to mention that the lifeline is not connected to Haibei. The lifeline here starts from Dajian Road, passes through the five post cities of Baili, Dege, Longda and Changdu, and leads to Sichuan.

To restore morale, he must digest the results of the war as soon as possible, so that the soldiers really feel that this is their land.

However, this matter was quickly resolved with the arrival of Yan Taiji.

The lion army attacked from the northwest to the east, and the road they traveled was far and long. It is very easy to say that Taiji came here from Qamdo, along the four post cities, and entered Dege on the sixth day after receiving the news.

In the next few days, the Mongolian herders sent by Baiyan arrived one after another, and two thousand troops were stationed in the area from Malkang to Dege. The troops of this force were mainly the tribes of Guru Taiji and Xiao Lazun.

Arriving with this army, there was also a promise to bring more than 1000 prisoners to Liu Chengzong.

They are all the children of Bailey's nobles and chieftains.

On the surface, nobles from all over the country rushed to surrender to Liu Chengzongna, but in fact, since the collapse of Tubo, the nobles in Kham had never been so panicked in the 700 years since the collapse of Tubo.

When Bai Li's army collapsed, the victor of the war was Liu Chengzong, who was famous for defending slaves, and the remaining nobles were in danger.

In just a few days, on the one hand, nobles from all over the country went to Malkang to surrender in person, making a final effort to leave the territory.

On the other hand, families from all over the world let the eldest son and second son who had become a monk in the temple return to secular life, and sent them to roll up their belongings and flee to Qamdo without stopping, and then fled to Shigatse, where they were attached to Zangba Khan under the Karma regime.

They didn't have the ability to ask Zangba Khan to uphold justice, they just wanted to leave a fire for the family, so that even if the territory was taken by Liu Chengzong, as long as Zangba Khan recognized them, they would have a chance to come back in the future.

But going to Shigatse has to go through Qamdo.

As early as when Liu Chengzong was still blocked by King Lin Cong on the west bank of the Jinsha River, he said that Taiji had already reached an agreement with Jambaling Temple and entered Qamdo without bloodshed.

In this war between Liu Chengzong and Dunyue Dorji, except for Xie Erhu and other small tribal leaders who were attached to Liu Chengzong, many Mongolian nobles contributed very little, and were basically responsible for the important work of waving the flag and shouting.

But no matter Liu Chengzong or Baiyan Taiji and others are satisfied with this situation.

After all, from the perspective of Bai Yan and others, they led the people to Nangqian not to let people die on the battlefield, but to go to Tibet to earn a sweat for themselves.

The Mongolian nobles were willing to fight for Liu Chengzong from the bottom of their hearts, and they needed the daily necessities produced in Juerwan.

But the lion would not let them rob.

If you don't rob your tribe, you won't have the enthusiasm to fight. Liu Chengzong can restrain the Mongolian leaders from robbing, but the Mongolian leader can't restrain the tribe from robbing.

Therefore, the Mongolian leaders headed by Yan Taiji did not dare to fight for Liu Chengzong.

People are worried that if the robbery is discovered during the war, Jurwan will not do business for them later, and things will be really difficult.

So a little bit of flag-raising, running to Qamdo and Leiwuqi, and occupying the gates of Tibet can not only play a supporting role for Liu Chengzong, but also avoid causing trouble for himself, which is basically the best result.

As for Xie Erhu who firmly followed Liu Shizi to fight, the situation is different from others.

His tribe has been in the Qaidam Basin, and they went to Juerwan not to do business, but to seek a piece of pasture land from Liu Chengzong.

Move the grazing land to Haibei, and all the tribes can eat and serve food, and the war is just a trivial matter.

To put it bluntly, he just pictured those two pickles.

Based on this environment, some noble children who fled from Kham disguised themselves as pilgrims and herdsmen, and arrived in Qamdo after untold hardships, only to find that there were Mongolians everywhere.

They were greeted by an order from Baiyan Taiji about picking up stones.

In fact, this group of people arrived in Changdu one after another, and he guessed that most of them were Bai Li's nobles, but he needed these people to pick up stones, so he didn't identify them.

All the monks in Jambalin Monastery went to pick up stones under his order, not to mention the group of pilgrims who wanted to go to Tibet, they all picked up stones without discrimination.

You can't pick up big ones, you can't pick up small ones, as long as they can fit into Liuhe cannon.

Originally, in the plan of Yan Taiji, not only should these "pilgrims" pick up stones, but also let these "pilgrims" carry stones all the way to Lhasa, and even to Shigatse.

After he finished his battle with Zangba Khan, he handed over these people to Liu Chengzong.

But since Liu Chengzong asked him for someone, he said that the rations carried by these people were about the same, so he simply sent them all over.

This group of people was captured by arrogance, which made Liu Chengzong, who was about to start confiscating the noble manor, overjoyed.

He patted Yan Yan on the shoulder and said: "If you really let this group of people go to Zangba, they will all be the leaders of the horse bandits in Kham."

He said that he lived quite comfortably in Qamdo, and he was accompanied by a translator who could understand Chinese. He smiled and said, "If you catch it, I will send it to you. Generalissimo, the soldiers you want have been sent to you. Later, you plan to How to do?"

"Don't worry, let's talk in the official village."

Liu Chengzong brought Bai Yan into the official village of Dunyue Duoji, and the two sat down upstairs, then he said with a smile: "I asked you to bring your tribe, how can you bring Guru and Lazun's tribe?" gone?"

Bai Yan laughed straight: "My people are picking up rocks, what's the difference, they will be obedient."

"It's not about being obedient." Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said, "I plan to form a new army and set up seven counties here. This army will serve as officials in each county. I trust you, and naturally I trust your troops."

I was dumbfounded when I heard the words.

He thought that Liu Chengzong wanted someone to come here just to maintain law and order, and it sounds like he wanted to directly occupy the tribe.

To put it bluntly, I said thankfully that the people I brought here were from my own brothers, and I didn't bring my own followers. It doesn't sound like a good thing to be trusted by you!
He frowned and said, "My brother's followers may not be willing to do this, let alone my followers, Generalissimo, I want to use people to fight in Tibet!"

"Where do you think it is? This is a good thing. Do you think I want to form an army like this?" Liu Chengzong raised his hand and said, "I want to share some of the power with you for the land I have conquered. Are you going back to Haibei?"

Liu Chengzong, this is really an expedient measure that can't be helped.

His lack of people is secondary, the key is the language barrier, they must learn language, but this problem cannot be resolved within a few months.

The situation in the Baili Territory is that there is a vacuum of local power, and the old nobles are running around desperately. Even if they are still alive in the territory, the little troops in their hands are not capable of dealing with the banditry.

His people want to fill this vacancy, words are a hurdle that must be overcome, and he may have to fight another battle after a few months.

In order to solve this problem, he could only choose a compromise strategy. Few soldiers in the Lion Army understood the Western language, but many understood the Mongolian language. Few Mongolian herdsmen understood Chinese, but many understood the Western language.

Moreover, Mongolian herders can act as local security forces to make up for the shortage of manpower.

For Liu Chengzong, although he wanted to protect the rights of the slaves, the reliability of the slave soldiers in Basang was not as high as that of the Mongolian soldiers.

He knows what Qinghai Mongolia wants, and it just so happens that only he can and is willing to give these things to a large extent.

But even Basang himself doesn't know what he wants, so how can he give it?
Therefore, in his conception, this newly established bureaucratic system should be composed of Lion Soldiers, Waiyan Soldiers, Basang Soldiers and Ah Liu Soldiers.

After hearing Liu Chengzong ask him whether he would return to Qinghai, he realized what Liu Chengzong meant by setting up officials: "The generalissimo means that our two families are one family, and there are officials in the local area, so you can rest assured on the way home?"

"That's what I mean, I don't want to swallow your soldiers, you have to use this road too."

Bai Yan didn't say much on this issue, but rolled his eyes around the room, got up and looked at the map on the wall, and asked: "The Grand Marshal said that there are seven counties, which seven?"

Liu Chengzong didn't know what he meant, he got up and pointed to the map and said: "Ma Kang, Lu Huo, De Ge, Gong Jue, Chang Du, Lin Cong and Nang Qian."

"Chamdo, Commander, do you want Changdu?"

Bai Yan's ears seemed to be fixed on this word, and he turned his head and rubbed his hands and said, "Now I agree with the officials that the Grand Marshal said, but the Grand Marshal wants to promise me, Lei Wuqi will go west again, and it will be mine."

Lei Wuqi and then west?

After Liu Chengzong thought about it, he went to Tibet.

He asked, "You don't plan to go back to Qinghai?"

"I don't have much grazing land in Qinghai. Last time I went to Tibet, I fell in love with Baicang." He said with a smile: "This time there is a large army and the artillery given to me by the commander. Shepherd."

After all, he looked at Liu Chengzong and said: "Although it is far away, we can send people to Juerwan several times a year. If this route is connected, it will not delay my business in Juerwan. It's handsome in the market in Jurwan, and I can live well here."

Liu Chengzong smiled at first, then recovered his seriousness, sat up straight and said, "If you want to be stationed in the west, I have three requirements, which are not difficult and will not affect your stationing in the pasture."

"First, you have to take my official position, and any other messy titles don't count; second, you have to enforce my laws, and other laws don't count."

"Thirdly, over there, you have to set up a government and send officials to govern the area. The army also belongs to my establishment, but within the scope of your grazing, whether it is taxation or Timba, I will not intervene."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)