stubborn thief

Chapter 369

At the northwest mountain pass of Chaka Salt Lake, goshawks hover in the sky, and guards carrying profusely sweaty white flags stand at the northwest mountain pass. Mongolian drummers straddle the humps and beat the drums on the left and right. Teams of Chahar cavalry come from the mountain pass Spread to the lake.

Lin Dan Huduntu Khan rode his horse, opened the binoculars and looked south aggressively.

At the end of the endless saline-alkaline Gobi, camps can be seen at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, which is the residence of Oirat, and the Heshuo special cavalry and the Junggar musketeering camel city are watching.

The envoy of the National Teacher Khan Tulubaihu had just been sent away by Lin Dan Khan, his blood was still hot, his body was left here, and his head was being sent to the south with braids by the warrior who Khan regarded death as home.

Under the battle flag, Chen Qindai, the magistrate of Haibei County, with a solemn expression, rode his horse to Huduntu's side and sighed: "If the two armies do not kill the envoy, why should the Khan kill the envoy to vent his anger?"

Huduntu glanced at him, opened his mouth to say something, but didn't say it, just frowned, and raised his whip to the north: "Since you have become an official of Xiaowang in the Southern Dynasty, go and take care of your wife and children. You don't need to take care of things."

He hated the Mongols calling Khan the most. In the past, he thought that there was only one emperor in the southern dynasty, and he should be the only Khan in the north. Why should he be king everywhere?

He hit this, conquered that, and made actions that outsiders saw as chopping off his right hand with his left hand. More than half of the inner driving force was forced by the Ming Dynasty.

Because in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, the leader who ruled Mongolia was Tumed, the king of Shunyi.

As for him, Borzhijin's Lindan Batur, when he was adolescence, people in the Southern Dynasties still called him a little prince, and when he was in his 30s, he called him a tiger chief.

They didn't even want to call him Bei Yuan Da Khan.

Who is not angry?
From the perspective of the Han people, Mongolia is all Mongolia, and a tribe is a tribe is the normal state of Mongolia. Whoever is stronger will have more tribute horses and receive more rewards, and the Tumed tribe has the most.

But in Lin Danhan's view, scattered Mongolia is not the normal state of Mongolia. There is Genghis Khan in the distance and Dayan Khan in the near. The unified Mongolia is the normal state of Mongolia.

As long as they have eaten the elixir of centralization, rulers for generations will never forget the wonderful taste of centralization.

For him, he was born to reverse the declining situation of the Khan court. All Mongolians, those who dare to claim Khan are enemies who show their chariots and horses; Gong is not obedient, it is a potential enemy.

With such a point, there is no left and right hand.

The situation in Khan Court is in a precarious situation, his legs are gone, so where are his hands?

What Huduntu has always wanted is to form authority in the various tribes of Mongolia, and the emperors of the Southern Dynasties must also recognize him. As for Houjin... What is Houjin?
Although the Houjin army was so scared that I ran away when I heard the attack, and the capital lost the ball, but the Jurchen is still the little thing that raises birds for Ulus. I just look down on you, and I will fight when I have the ability to unify Mongolia.

This is the core idea of ​​his crusade against the various tribes of Mongolia.

The Southern Dynasties can be united together, why can't Mongolia?

In comparison, Huduntu doesn't recognize all the khans and kings in the world, and the only one who can match his status in his heart is the Daming Emperor.

He saw that Tumet became stronger after establishing the tribute city with the Ming Dynasty, and he also needed to use the power of the Ming Dynasty to make the country rich and strong, but he did not catch up with the best times. If he doesn't reward him, his attitude towards the Southern Dynasties is also sometimes obedient and sometimes rebellious.

It is also because of this that now he has fled to the West Sea and has completely severed his connection with the emperor of the Southern Dynasty. However, Liu Chengzong, a young king of the Southern Dynasty, exists. For him, the Marshal's Mansion can replace the Southern Dynasty and become the key to the prosperity of the Beiyuan Khan Court.

So to the Marshal's Mansion, he pinched his nose and recognized it with disgust on the surface, but in fact he was a little secretly happy about it in his heart, and even directly called Liu Chengzong the little king of the Southern Dynasty in words.

Hey, I'm not the only one who is ashamed, the Southern Dynasty is also fucking king everywhere.

For this point, Lin Dan Huduntu didn't lose his temper with Chen Qindai, he was a profuse sweater, but for Liu Chengzong's sake, he pardoned Chen Qindai's guilt of agreeing with Oirat Khan's status in words, he thought he was a big Spend.

But Chen Qindai was very upset, what age, still relying on the bloodlines given by his father and mother to take the airs of sweating, our marshal's mansion doesn't even recognize the emperor, can you do it?

Besides, you have a little more Mongols under your command than our generals, so what kind of sweat are you?

But Chen Qindai didn't dare to show dissatisfaction in front of Huduntu. After all, the bird sweated unreasonably. Head over there.

Chen Qindai didn't want his head to be sent back to the Marshal's Mansion, the main reason is that this time a bone can't solve the problem, otherwise he really wanted to give Huduntu a bone.

This will knock the Khan to death, and Chahar's army will be all cheap for Oirat.

He could only act as if he had said the wrong thing, hurriedly bowed and retreated, and stopped observing the battlefield at the moment, and only said to Huduntu: "The commander-in-chief said that if the military situation is urgent, the commander-in-chief will provide Da Khan with With help, the Great Khan can move to the east, where there is the fortress of the commander's mansion as a support."

Huduntu nodded silently, but waved Chen Qindai down.

The little king of the Southern Dynasty in the Marshal's Mansion is not much more interesting than the Ming emperor. Oirat called and asked him to send troops, but he didn't; asked him to provide food, but he didn't provide food... Huduntu wondered if I was guarding the border for you ?

To put it bluntly, the third batch of envoys was sent to allow more than 3 women and children from Chahar to be temporarily sent to the sea.

It was Chen Qindai who was easy to talk about, and asked him to send women and children from the north to Haibei County. He sent envoys to Nanshan Fort in the east.

Huduntu thought to himself, he sent people over to look at it, there was only a large piece of wasteland, and he threatened to go to war if he said anything, who cares about going there?

But he didn't know that Zhong Hu didn't allow the Mongols to approach Nanshan Fort, not because he felt sorry for the newly sown land, but because at this moment, Liu Xiangyu was in Nanshan Fort.

On the hillside outside the fort, the guard Zhong Hu leads the horse in front, and Liu Xiangyu in a blue robe stands on the cliff with his hands behind his back. Looking to the west, the salt lake twenty miles away is like a blue silk spread, reflecting the sky The colors are hidden in the halo of the mountains.

They can't see the battlefield where the two are facing each other, but they can feel the war that is close at hand.

Zhong Hu asked: "Grandfather, will Tiger Chief put his family members at sea?"

Liu Xiangyu shook his head, indifferently said: "It's good for him if he lets go, he can fight freely, and it's not bad for the commander's mansion if he doesn't let us go. The food for thirty thousand women is not a small amount. It just so happens that your commander-in-chief doesn't want to let the tiger chief go." people enter the customs."

The old and the weak, women and children are just obedient, and they followed the tiger rabbit for four or five thousand miles. They were not marching prepared, but they were running away and losing battles one after another. How could the old and weak survive to this point? There are not many children. It's a woman.

Zhong Hu deeply believed that in the past, regardless of farming, 3000 mu of land would be enough for 3 people to eat in a normal year, and [-] hectares of land would be needed to feed [-] people. I did my best.

If there is more population, you can only reduce your population. If you don’t reduce your own population, you have to reduce other people’s population.

He asked: "The handsome, what do you mean?"

Liu Xiangyu didn't speak, turned his head to look at Zhong Hu, and sighed.

It was not Liu Chengzong's intention to take in women and children, but an order from Master Liu.

Liu Xiangyu thought carefully about the letter sent back by Liu Chengzong. Liu Chengzong meant that Huduntu could unite if he changed his attitude, and Guo Shihan is not easy to fool, so he will fight sooner or later.

But for Liu Xiangyu, this is the result he is least happy to see.

Deep down in his heart, he hoped that Liu Chengzong could have a talk with the Oirats, make a little compromise, and bring Qinghai a stable rear...at least a year of stability.

Mr. Liu was very helpless about the situation.

If the sons' actions in Lanzhou go well, the short-term food shortage problem is solved, and Hehuang has a large population and arable land, they can breathe a sigh of relief and get out of the predicament.

The threat from Daming in the east alone, as long as they can win, the Hehuang grain production area is in their hands, the logistical pressure is very low, and they can afford the cost of a long-term confrontation.

It never occurred to the west that Tartars came again, or two groups of Tartars.

According to Liu Xiangyu's idea, if the war can be avoided, he can accept the surrender of some pastoral areas and even the access to Tibet.

This is a question of trade-offs. Neither the Chuck Rabbit nor the Hudun Rabbit has a rear, and they dare not run into no-man's land, and they can easily surround them.

However, Oirat has pastures in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and has a force too large to be surrounded by the Marshal's Mansion. If it cannot be wiped out in the first battle, the Marshal's Mansion will inevitably be disturbed by it, and it can only be dealt with by deploying heavy troops in Haixi and Haibei. .

Even if there were only [-] soldiers, a corresponding five-station granary road would have to be established from Xining City to Haixi Haibei, and the consumption of food roads was still a trivial matter. Their main enemy was not Mongolia, but Ming.

There are [-] more troops stationed in the west, and [-] fewer troops are stationed in the east. Once the enemy is attacked, the two enemies are likely to choose the same time to attack - around the autumn harvest.

No matter which side breaks through, the land that has been cultivated for a year will be gone, especially after Liu Chengzong decided to unify the cultivation of crops in Hehuang. This is not only an expedient strategy to solve the food shortage, but also makes the agriculture of the Marshal's Mansion vulnerable.

Liu Xiangyu seldom considers issues from the military aspect, because he can't figure it out clearly, but the political and economic aspects are clear to him at a glance.

According to his calculations, the limit of Xining Mansion's ability to support full-time officers and troops is [-]. Making enemies on both sides to defend the east and west will make Xining Mansion pull into the most tense state.

Even if it is a bow, it will break if it is always pulled like this, not to mention that God is throwing knives in the sky in today's situation, and no one knows when the Hehuang Valley will be dry.

Therefore, in his opinion, instead of fighting against Oirat's National Teacher Khan, it is better to take what they need. At least from the National Teacher Khan's envoy, it can be seen that this Mongolian nobleman is a person who can communicate.

The hundreds of miles of no-man's land from Salt Lake to Nangqian are used to let the Mongols graze. It is best for the two sides to achieve symbiosis, even for a year.

One year is enough for the Marshal's Mansion to slow down, and two years can leave Guoshi Khan behind.

But what Liu Xiangyu said doesn't count.

The most important thing is that he himself is not sure whether his own ideas are right or wrong, because the Marshal's Mansion has long had only Liu Chengzong's ideas verified. No matter how wild or extreme the plan is, it can be achieved in the end and let everyone survive.

So Liu Xiangyu could only shake his head, and said to Zhong Hu: "Procrastinate, wait for your marshal to come back, and before the main force returns, the marshal's office won't be able to intervene with the nearly [-] Mongolian troops."

Zhong Hu asked: "Drag?"

"Yes, procrastination is good for us. The commander wants Huduntu to correct his attitude, but in my opinion, Huduntu is not a weak person who is easy to control. He has to be very assertive before he can go his own way."

In this war between the Mongols, the Marshal's Mansion was unable to control it in a short period of time.

Even if the sky falls, even if the Mongolian soldiers enter Juerwan and demolish the market, or even level the new city and approach Xining City, the main force of the Marshal's Mansion will not be able to return to help, and must focus on moving Lanzhou's money and food.

Even if the Mongols surrounded Xining City, they wouldn't let them die; but the Marshal's Mansion didn't have Lanzhou's food, and it would be finished before this autumn.

"In this case, it is better for the tiger chief to put his family members into the sea. We can still have food for 3 people. Otherwise, if the tiger chief is defeated, it will not be all cheap for Oirat."

Mr. Liu couldn't change the overall situation. Two Mongolian armies were fighting on their territory, which filled him with anger, so he could only think about collecting some interest from Huduntu first.

Zhong Hu shook his head and said, "Grandpa, I sent Tang Qi over there to see that Chief Hu doesn't have a lot of luggage and has been asking us for food; but the Oirats have a lot of livestock, so they shouldn't be afraid to delay."

"They should be afraid. Tianshan is also the site of the Four Wars. The [-] Oirat coalition forces are very strong everywhere. Now they are all elite."

Liu Xiangyu was very sure about this matter, and explained to Zhong Hu: "Moreover, the envoy of Guoshi Khan said that all the great nobles of the four tribes participated in this southern expedition. I don't think they will stay here for long."

"Grandpa is saying that they will withdraw?"

Liu Xiangyu shook his head and was not optimistic about the future situation: "If you go back, you will have to be beaten back by us. There is a lot of land that cannot be cultivated in Qinghai, which is like a chicken rib to us, but to the Mongolians grazing, this place is no less than the land of abundance. If we don't fight They won't leave, and they may not leave even if they are beaten or wiped out."

After that, he shook his head: "Why are people running south, it's endless."

By now, Mr. Liu has already seen that all the troubles in the Marshal's Mansion have always been related to the population, and they were all brought in by God.

In normal times, someone would send population to the separatist regime one after another, and anyone would be happy to die, but in this era and environment they live in, the extremely precious population is more poisonous than poison.

It's all about food... But if there is enough food to feed all the Oirats on the Tianshan Mountains, why did these Oala Tartars flee five thousand miles to fight here?
This is just great.

Liu Xiangyu shook his head lightly and looked northwest.

If the son must go to war with Oirat, once the war starts, in order for Xining to be used as the rear of the imperial court to attack the east, they must also send troops five thousand miles to Ili.

The Marshal's Mansion could not do this by itself, and Liu Xiangyu had his next goal - Gansu.

Only the [-] Gansu frontier troops waiting to be fed gave up the desert and rushed to the oasis in the Ili River Valley, in order to fight to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains without tiles.

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)