stubborn thief

Chapter 514

Hami City is a small city, but there is a Governor's Mansion in the city, which belongs to Babai.

Babai is Turpan Khan's agent Khan in Hami. He is very young, but to be honest, this Khan has been very useless in Hami for the past six months.

The main reason for his cowardice is that the information was wrong. To be honest, he almost hated Chai Shihua to death.

The Han people in Babai speak very well, and they have a very good relationship with Chai Shihua, the chief smuggler of the Gansu army. They have had very profound interests over the years...but Chai Shihua has never talked to him. Liu Chengzong is the leader of the Ming rebel army, At the same time, he is the Generalissimo of the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion, and it is Han Han and Daiqing Khitan Khan.

He has always thought that these are the four forces and four people who are entrenched in Qinghai.

This directly led to the troops of the Junggar tribe and Liu Chengzu coming to the city. He was still thinking about helping Liu Chengzong fight Batur Huntaiji... Who knew that the clown was actually myself, and he became a family if he didn't fight.

If that's the case, Babai Khan is not considered a coward. It's just that those who know the current affairs are heroes, and if they can't beat them, they join. Surrender.

For a Khan, being loved, hated, or feared doesn't matter, but he must never be ignored, but Liu Chengzong just ignored him.

He surrendered, prepared several sets of clothes, and planned to go to Liu Chengzong's imperial court to show off the Chinese language he had practiced for many years, so as to find a good way out for Hami. He was backed by Turpan and even Yarkand in East Chagatai, and he had too many things to compare with. Liu Chengzong chatted.

Trade routes, tribute, exchange of needs, these are all things that can be discussed...then there is no reason why we, Bo'er, can't do things that can be done by Choros in Junggar.

The Han official named Sunday Qiang rode into the pass excitedly, and then rode back excitedly. Afterwards, the Han army launched a massive conscription campaign in Hami City. Like a gust of wind, it swept away all those capable of fighting and The weapons and armor used, not even the little pony.

And off they go.

Until he was convinced that the Han army and the Junggars had no intention of coming back, the more Babai Khan sat in the governor's mansion, the more he felt uncomfortable: What about me?
Whether you are the Generalissimo or Daiqing Khitan Khan, why can't you read the news of my Babai Khan's surrender?

His mentality has changed. He climbed to the top of Hami city every day to reflect on time, constantly reviewing his actions during the period when the Han army passed through the border. After thinking about it for a whole month, he couldn't find anything wrong.

He was sure that the problem was not with him, so it was with Liu Chengzong.

A full month after Liu Chengzu led his army to leave Hami, Babai Khan finally confirmed one thing: he thought he had surrendered, but in fact the Marshal's Mansion did not accept his surrender, but simply ransacked his Hami city in an organized manner empty.

Babai Khan, who realized it later, was so angry that he closed the door of the Governor's Mansion and cursed: How dare this goat-fucking donkey ball look down on him!

But angry is angry, and Babai has no other choice. Zhou Riqiang almost took away all the soldiers and armors of Hami, and now the trained soldiers in his hands can only form an army of 20 people.

The Tianshan army, who was originally from the inland rebels, has excellent material collection capabilities. Hami City, which was turned upside down by them, is left with only two old blacksmiths, who are building armor and equipment to supply this army day and night.

Compared with armor that could be rebuilt, the problem of mounts was obviously more difficult for Babai. Twenty of his soldiers searched all over Hami, but they couldn't find a second animal for riding.

Finally, the soldiers who reported to Turpan rode Babai's horse.

Babai hoped that Aji Khan, the second brother who ruled Turpan, would send him more troops, but it turned out that this matter was like a dream, and Yarkand was in conflict again.

This time the infighting was the Turpan Khanate. Their eldest brother Abdul Raha was released by Yarkand Khan and inherited the throne in Chalishi. The first thing he did was to stabilize the internal situation. Several brothers outside have made promises to guarantee power.

Relying on the intangible support provided by his brothers, Abdullah exiled a large number of nobles from the former dynasty, and more than 200 nobles were executed alone. Want location.

For a while, there was a lot of turmoil in the Turpan Khanate, not to mention other nobles, even the clans that supported the Eastern Khan also tucked their tails, for fear of accidentally offending this big brother who was not familiar with them.

In the letter to Babai Khan, the second elder brother Aji Khan told him not to make trouble. Their elder brother was taken hostage in the Yarkand Khan Court at the age of seven and stayed in the city of Yarkand for his whole life. It is more than half a year now Bai inherited the Khan position and was very suspicious.

As for the matter of not giving him a promise of power, Aji Khan told Babai not to take it to heart... Who told the elder brother to come back, Hami had no soldiers, and even provoked the big monster in the east?
Aji Khan didn't dare to use troops, so he only sent [-] horses to Babai Khan. Babai was so angry that he tore up the letter on the spot: It's not that I provoke others, it's that others pushed my head on the ground and stomped on it. up!

It turns out that this is not the case.

Because right under the eyes of Babai Khan, a monster was resurrected, and the name of this monster was Chijinwei.

The commander of the Chijin Guard in the Marshal's Mansion is Kang Liangfu, the leader of the Mongolian Chijin Department. He used to be the leader outside the Suzhou Pass. He has more than 200 herdsmen from the Chijin Department.

He got Liu Chengzong's order to supplement [-] heavenly soldiers to rebuild Chijin Guard.

This task is not difficult for Kang Liangfu. It has been three months since Liu Chengzong entered the pass. He collected Chijinwei's property outside the pass. He gathered [-] herdsmen, [-] horses, and [-] heavenly soldiers to form a team of [-] cavalry. The horse and mule team, under the guise of Wanzhong, appeased the Hus in Yumen, Guazhou, and Dunhuang, and gave the Marshal's Mansion a territory of [-] miles outside Jiayuguan.

Recruiting is the best job. There are no ordinary people who are making a living in the Gobi outside the customs. There are young and middle-aged people who count as one. If it is not a horse bandit or a bandit, it is that he is immersing himself in honing his skills and hoping to join the bandit gang as soon as possible.

For no other reason, Yumen, Guazhou, and Dunhuang, the three major plots of land are connected together for a total of [-] miles, and the number of people living here is less than [-]. What does it mean that Tutaiji and Lin Danhan's army and rout are here?
It means that everyone who can survive has withstood enough tests. Seeing a shepherd herding sheep, he may be a shepherd, or it may be that the rout army killed the shepherd and let his sheep go, and it is more likely that the rout soldier killed the shepherd He was killed by a horse bandit again, and then the horse bandit was herding sheep.

But the origin of these people is not important to Kang Liangfu, what is important is that the Generalissimo who gave him the kindness of knowledge asked him to recruit Zhu Hu, so he recruited.

No matter who you are in the past, as long as you can shoot arrows, bring twenty dings and give them to the small flag; bring a hundred dings and give them to the general banner; No need to do it, it was there in the past, and it is still there after registration.

At the beginning, the people begging for life in the Gobi were not moved by this kind of condition, and they didn’t care about food or pay. They just issued a letter of appointment for recruitment and security. Not two sheep?

Kang Liangfu couldn't do anything about it. If he really pulled the team over, his Chijin Guards would be so poor that they would be like trousers, and Liu Chengzong didn't care about their military rations, so they couldn't afford to support them when they came.

But after Liu Chengzong laid down the Gaotai Thousand Households, Kang Liangfu saw the rewards for the military exploits received by the Suzhou Camp, his brain became active, and he added a clause after the condition, the generalissimo was generous to the army. If you don’t believe me, look at the Suzhou Camp. Everyone has a reward for conquering a city.

The big gangs on the Gobi heard the news and came to seek registration one after another, and some self-employed individuals also ran over. At that time, the strength of Chijin's guards soared to nearly [-].

The unrestrained fugitive frontier soldiers in the pass, the exiled military households who are impatient with poverty, the Khalkha rout of Chuoketutaiji, the downcast nobles of the Chahar tribe, and the defeated soldiers of Oirat, the source of their troops can be described as heroes collection.

There was even a gang leader named He Chong'an, whose weird life experience made Kang Liangfu specially find him because he was defeated twice by Liu Chengzong.

He Chongan was born in the frontier army of Ningxia. He first went to Yan'an Mansion with He Huchen as a horse army management team to suppress the rebellion. He was defeated and captured in Huanglong Mountain. After drinking Liu Chengzong's ginger soup, he followed He Huchen back to Ningxia.

When he went back to recruit recruits, he was promoted and became a general manager for a while. Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long. When Lin Danhan bumped into the side wall, he was leading a team to scrape sand. He was outnumbered. A young entrepreneurial expert from the Chahar Department hooked him back with a hook and sickle gun, and became a prisoner.

Fortunately, he is fluent in the Mongolian dialect in Monan, and he is very popular among the migration troops in Chahar. Many Tumed who have been recruited are willing to play with him.

Followed Lin Danhan to Qinghai and learned that Liu Chengzong was in Qinghai. He thought he could borrow the captives to fight against the bandits, but he never expected that Lin Danhan would reach an alliance with Liu Chengzong, and angrily engulfed more than 30 Tumo special soldiers who surrendered and crossed the Qilian Mountains. Join the army again in Gansu Town—this time his chief is Zhao Zhirui.

After Liu Chengzong broke the pass, He Chongan took a group of defeated soldiers to the Subei Gobi. He wanted to cross the Alxa Desert and return to Ningxia, but Liu Chengzong's army beat and ran faster than their stragglers. He was almost caught by Zhang Tianlin's patrol soldiers at the edge of the desert.

In a fit of anger, He Chongan led the team and ran back outside Jiayuguan, where they fell into the grass.

This time, He Chongan also figured it out. He figured that at this speed, Liu Chengzong would reach Ningxia in a short time. Now that he voted for Chijinwei, it would be easier to go home, so he led the team to Kang Liangfu to register. .

He was quite awesome, and even made conditions with Kang Liangfu when he came. After all, he was the one Liu Chengzong beat up in the Lion Camp, and he spoke very hard: "I am a good player, you have to give soldiers food."

Kang Liangfu was delighted when he heard it: "Look at me, which one is not a good player? The one-eyed dragon is the cowardly Qianqi commander of the Mongolian Khan, and the lame man is He Shuoqi, the national teacher Khan. What's the use? That's not it. There is no food to eat."

"I know that you are all capable people, but to be honest, none of you are very capable. Your ability is so great. Now it's time for me to write to you to ask for food and grass."

Kang Liangfu didn't say anything to death, he smiled and said, "But you are the only leader of the Han soldiers in the Gobi, I will write you a letter, and you will send it to Ganzhou to Cao Dudu yourself, there must be no military supplies. , but maybe I can give you an official position in the army."

Kang Liangfu didn't dare to offend people from the frontier army in Ningxia, so he gave it away if he could give him a favor. After all, Dai Daozi who went to Tianshan, and Ma Xiang, the Tang soldier next to the commander, were all frontier soldiers from Ningxia.

But before He Chongan was on the road, an urgent letter came from the direction of Hami in the north asking Chijinwei to forward it to Ganzhou. Kang Liangfu had no choice but to take He Chongan and made a special trip to Ganzhou.

The letter was written by Liu Chengzu. No matter what the content of the letter was, it was a secret letter of the highest urgency to Kang Liangfu. It was impossible for him to let He Chongan, a newly defected soldier, escort this kind of letter.

When the group arrived in Ganzhou, Kang Liangfu easily took He Chong'an to meet Cao Yao at the Governor's Mansion. Cao Yao was in a state of distress because of the frontline military situation.

He also couldn't figure out how Liu Chengzong fought this battle. Wang Ziyong, who was stationed at the front line of Yongchang, sent a letter saying that several Ming troops had broken out in the mountainous area southwest of Liangzhou, running fast, charging fiercely, and marching in formation. It's quite organized, and it's not easy to suppress it.

At this moment, the group of rout soldiers has been wandering around the foot of the mountain, and Wang Ziyong doesn't know what they want to do.

Cao Yao looked left and right at the map in the Governor's Mansion, thinking that no matter how Liu Chengzong's battle in Gulangxia and Zhuanglanghe was fought, there should be no rout in that place, which made him very puzzled.

No matter how he thought about it, he would never have imagined that in that mountainous area, his family member Cao Wenzhao was fighting wits and courage against the air in the old forest.

Cao Wenzhao was even more puzzled than he was. According to his plan, they took such a long detour, and the place they came out was the necessary place between Liangzhou and Yongchang. It's very intense, and it should be Liu Chengzong's way of life as soon as he comes out.

As a result, his scouts got out of the mountain and reported that outsiders were going to Baokong. Cao Wenzhao felt that it was a fraud, so he didn't dare to go out with his head covered, and first sent a small team of horses to go around outside.

The information sent back was even more frightening. The horse team ran around in a radius of [-] miles, but they didn't see anyone, as if they were haunted.

Because of this confrontation across the air, Cao Yao has been restless for the past two days, and he is not very angry when he sees Kang Liangfu bringing the Han soldiers over. He even frowns when he reads Liu Chengzu's letter.

The content of the letter was nothing special, just that Liu Chengzu asked how the battle was going, and by the way, informed that Oirat was preparing for the war.

But when Cao Yao saw the back of the letter, he frowned and clapped his hands, "Okay, let's fight!"

On Tianshan North Road, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. For Cao Yao, as long as Liu Chengzu and his gang of Han troops are safe, the leaders of Wei Lat can do whatever they want there. He doesn't care, and he is not even interested in knowing.

However, if Batur Huitaiji wants to do a big job, he needs the Marshal's Office to provide equipment support as promised. In exchange for this support, Liu Chengzu said in the letter that Batur Huitaiji is preparing a large amount of goods according to the promise.

This includes [-] sheep, [-] horses, and [-] cattle.

A very long letter, just this line of words, made Cao Yao smile directly. He is either greedy or simply likes small animals.

The entire army of the Marshal's Mansion also likes small animals. This letter means that every soldier in the Marshal's Mansion can receive his own little lamb this year, and the soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion plus the little lamb—all problems are solved.

Cao Yao smiled from ear to ear, and then he noticed that Kang Liangfu hadn't left. He raised his hand and said, "Hey, it just so happens that you didn't leave..."

"Captain, his name is He Chong'an, and he voted for the Chijin Guard." Kang Liangfu thought that he had found a chance to speak, and then whispered: "The Ningxia frontier army is still an officer."

Cao Yao frowned and looked at He Chong'an, he didn't even believe the punctuation marks, Ningxia Frontier Army, Chijin Guards, how can there be any serious officers running outside Jiayuguan?
But right now he didn't care about these issues at all, he stretched out his hand to grab the map, pointed at Hami's location, raised his head and said to He Chongan: "A frontier officer, do you understand military law?"

After He Chong'an nodded, Cao Yao said, "Okay, you are allowed to take up the post of commander of the Chijin Guard temporarily, and then your people..."

He looked at Kang Liangfu again and said, "Go and occupy Hami and lock the main road to the west. Before next year, not a single bird from Turpan can fly over, understand?"

Kang Liangfu nodded in a daze, and saw Cao Yao looking at He Chongan again: "It is the work of the Sipin Guards, which is concerned with military training and military discipline. The occupation of Hami requires strict restraint on the army. Good job, no matter what you did before After the war, Mr. Cao asked for credit for you, and helped you correct the matter of commanding Chijin Weishi."

"Can't you do it, um! You came from Ningxia, you can run quite well... But you must not be able to run without me. I came from Liaodong, so this time, if you can't do it well, don't make me look for it You, just wipe your neck yourself, you won’t be able to escape.”

　good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)