stubborn thief

Chapter 547

Three hundred rockets were transported, Liu Chengzong thought to himself, his brother did not make a mistake in going to Tianshan Mountain.

The elder brother is a soldier idiot. Before that, he was worried that he would not succeed in the affairs of the Marshal's Mansion. Instead, he would be used as a gunman by Oirat and become Batur Huntaiji's right-hand man.

Now it seems that his worries were overstated. The eldest brother actually came to watch the battle by the Yamesh Salt Lake. To be honest, this matter was indeed a bit beyond Liu Shizi's imagination.

Because even though the guns sold by the Marshal's Mansion to Oirat had not yet arrived when the war started, the Tianshan Army under Liu Chengzu's command had all the guns. The Raksha people had a small broken castle with hundreds of defenders by the lake, let alone The elder brother, even Liu Shizi, can't guarantee that he can watch the battle.

He owed it, maybe two shots were fired, and the bunker would be gone.

Two rounds of volleys from the Tianshan Army's heavy cannons and lion cannons fired over the wooden barrier. There were at least six gaps in a wall. As long as there were gaps, Oirat's cavalry would jump into them.

Relying on the firearms fortress, when Huang Shengxiao was still called Huang Xiao, the six bandit troops could keep the pier when thousands of Monan cavalry crossed the border, let alone a hundred Luocha soldiers.

But if the fortress is really broken, even if the Luocha soldiers are three heads long enough to be chopped off.

If Liu Chengzu helped Wei Lat to lay down this wooden barrier, it would not be very powerful. After all, it was the Oirat cavalry who really rushed in to kill people, but it would be very powerful if he could hold back his hands and create momentum for himself.

This made Liu Shizi let out a long sigh: Maybe the strategy of pushing the border to the Ural Mountains can really be achieved by relying on his brother.

In fact, Liu Chengzong had no idea about this matter before. He sent the Tianshan Army to Tianshan, not for such a great cause, but just wanted them to wipe out Yarkand in the south.

After all, even if he is the Generalissimo, he can't let his subordinates do meaningless things. In the eyes of people in this era, running to block the Ural Mountains is meaningless.

In contrast, leveling the Western Regions is a feat.

Right now, there is no need for my brother to worry. The only problem is the rotation of the Tianshan Army. After all, Liu Shizi can promise the officers and soldiers of the Tianshan Army that they will come back with a good background if they guard the border for five years or as short as three years.

Thinking of this, Liu Chengzong turned around and issued an order at the Marshal's Mansion in Lanzhou to summon Li Bei, Dalai Taiji, and Luocha veteran Qiban from Xincheng Academy to Lanzhou.

The three of them have nothing else to do, just ask them to set up a military training guard in Nanshan Fort in Qinghai. There is Qinghai Lake Navy Yamen in the north and Heka Grassland in the south. They are all good training grounds. Dalai Taiji is the commander and acquaintance.

Let them first transfer [-] battalion soldiers from Gansu, Xining, and Lintao as officers. The task is to recruit soldiers from Uzang, Kangning, Xining, Lintao, etc. every year, study for a year in training and guard training, and send them to the Tianshan Army for supplementary rotation and assistance , I served there for two years, and when I came back, I was promoted to two ranks.

It's a pity that Li Bei can't do it. It's not that he thinks the official position is low or has any opinions on this matter, but that he is seriously ill, and it is a problem to teach in the academy, let alone go to military training.

Seeing this, Liu Chengzong had no choice but to give up. He was not allowed to teach tactics at Xincheng Academy, and he was sent home to be raised. Zhong Hu was re-appointed as the commander of the military training guard, and he was responsible for recruiting [-] soldiers a year for training.

Not two days after this order was issued, Zhang Xianzhong, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, entered the Marshal's Mansion.

"Commander, is this training guard going to fight on the ground of the Oala Tartars?"

Liu Chengzong didn't think about why Zhang Xianzhong came here because of this matter, he nodded his head as an answer, and said with a smile: "Why, brother Bingzhong also wants to go there?"

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head like a rattle, thinking that if he went to the barren land of the Wala Tartars, his mother would never come back. I am not stupid, so I didn't go there.

But he still smiled shyly: "Commander, three thousand troops, it's not good where to go, why should we go?"

Liu Chengzong raised his hand and pointed lightly at him, turned his head to look for the map on the bookshelf, and said with a smile: "If you don't understand, I will explain it to you."

He searched for a map but couldn't find it, so he simply spread a piece of paper on the koan, picked up a pen and drew an outline, beckoned Zhang Xianzhong to come over, and said while drawing, "Look, this is Daming, the Marshal's Mansion is in the northwest, Mo The south is in the north, and Oirat is in the northwest of the Marshal's Mansion... You know the Raksha Kingdom."

Zhang Xianzhong was stunned, nodded calmly and said with a simple smile: "I've heard of it, but I'm a low-ranking and dull person, so I don't know where the country is."

Feng Shuangli led his troops to Kangning. When they passed by Xining Mansion, it was like visiting a zoo. He took his Xiying soldiers to watch the Raksha language teaching class in the academy. Later, he wrote a letter to Zhang Xianzhong, telling what he saw and heard.

He had only heard about the Raksha Kingdom in that letter, and now that Liu Chengzong was sure he knew it, he felt that he was surrounded by eyeliners.

However, he was thinking too much. Liu Chengzong didn't have the time to care about the letters of his soldiers from the West Camp. The West Camp and the Marshal's Mansion were not on the same level at all, so he didn't need to be so careful. Thought Zhang Xianzhong knew.

"It's a big country. It's probably in this place. Its territory is larger than the Marshal's Mansion. You know our situation. Those with a larger territory must be much stronger than us."

Zhang Xianzhong nodded when he heard the words, this is not Liu Shizi's self-effacing or destroying his prestige, but the law of objective existence.

The territory of the Marshal's Mansion is huge and weird, and it can be called the king of the rotten land in Asia.

After last year's chaos in Monan, Hou Jin suffered a little loss in Monan, and the journey back to Shenyang was extremely embarrassing. The ministries outside the mouth also fled north under the pursuit of the Ming army. It came down, and with the help of the huge force of the Mobei Sanhan, it swept the entire Monan with a force of swallowing.

By the end of the first month, Yang Qi had sent the covenant, maps, and various tribal items, and the grazing land of the tribal leaders who requested to surrender had extended as far as Zhangjiakou.

Of course, it is a disputed territory, and Hou Jin will not let it go. When the Liaoze thaws in spring, Huang Taiji will definitely have to come out of the Horqin Grassland again, but at least in these two months, the nominal territory of the Marshal’s Mansion has covered the entire Monan Grassland .

Zhangjiakou, Lanzhou, Qamdo, and Lhasa, which Huoluochi was besieging, formed a line on the map, which almost completely coincided with the [-]mm rainfall line.

Outside the line is Liu Shizi's territory.

If he expands a little bit, it will be the Heihe-Tengchong line, the geographical dividing line of China's population. After 400 years, the south of this line will have 90.00% of the population, while the north will only have [-]% of the population.

In fact, in this era, the population ratio is similar. Oirat and Wusizang, the two places plus one, is full of 180 million people. The territory controlled by Liu Shizi himself, Lintao, Gongchang, Xining, Kangning, Kangning, Gansu and Monan, is only 200 million.

His territory is almost half as wide as the country, but the population only accounts for six or seven percent.

This kind of monster whose territory and population are stitched together cannot stand in the forest of the world for a long time, and it is destined to be only a flash in the pan.

Based on this weird territory, the consensus of the Marshal's Office is that the territory has one-third of our power, so the force should be stronger than ours.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the map that Liu Chengzong had drawn casually, and was secretly surprised. The territory map drawn by the Generalissimo, just the outline of Daming, felt more detailed than all the maps he had seen in the past. The uncharted territory of the edge provides a higher degree of confidence.

This refers to a man of insight who has drawn heaven and earth.

He looked at the map carefully, thinking about the distance between Rakshasa Kingdom and the Marshal's Mansion, and asked solemnly, "Are we going to start a war with them?"

"Not to mention war, the north is not that dangerous. Although the Raksha country is strong, its country is in chaos. It was beaten to the ground by the Westerners in the west and shamed by the Tartars in the south. It is expanding to the east. It's this line."

Liu Chengzong drew a line on the north side of the map, extending all the way to the northeastern part of Liaodong, and said, "Qiban told me that they built a fort here three years ago, called Yakutsk, and set up a warlord. —It’s pretty good at running, isn’t it?”

Zhang Xianzhong almost ate his tongue when he looked at this line, not because of the distance, nor the funny "Fifty Garrison", but because the line drawn by Liu Chengzong on the map was from the northern part of Oirat to the northern part of Mobei, and finally After arriving in the northern part of the Jin Dynasty, Liu Chengzong did not paint anything along the entire route, and it was a completely unknown area.

Common sense is that the farther you go to the north, the colder you go, and the more you go north, the more desolate. Right now there are no living people in Monan. Large and small groups of Mongols begged to be included, but Liu Chengzong told him that there is now a big country from the northernmost barren land, Major stocks expand eastward.

Everyone in Zhang Xianzhong is stupid, why did this group of people become monsters?
The old Popsicle has become a genius?
However, after a brief shock, Zhang Xianzhong's eyes regained clarity, and he said to Liu Chengzong seriously: "Marshal, you don't have to worry about them."

Liu Chengzong: "Oh? Tell me what you think."

"From here to here." Zhang Xianzhong raised his hand and clicked on the northern part of Oirat, then Yakutsk, and said, "It's still far from Biwusi to the capital. Even if there are 36 stops in the whole journey, it will not be completed in ten days." , not to mention the freezing weather in the north, and the east and the west don't know for a month, they can't control it."

"My humble estimate is that the commander is worried that they will threaten Monan. Even if his soldiers approach Monan and march three thousand miles, the veterans will be exhausted. Our army is waiting for work, and we can attack them with little effort."

Liu Chengzong glanced at Zhang Xianzhong appreciatively, it was not easy.

He praised: "Insightful, you are right."

What Zhang Xianzhong said is absolutely correct. He even expected the enemy to be lenient. Not only did he not underestimate the difficulty of marching in Siberia, but he even overestimated it. If an army marches from Moscow to Lake Baikal, the veterans will not only be tired, but the food will be exhausted on the way. It crashed seven or eight times.

But it didn't work.

It's cold and freezing over there, and there is no normal marching environment at all. It's like two armies confronting each other. If the casualties reach a critical point, the army will flee; but if this army is surrounded, there will be no place to run. If the side does not surrender, there is a high probability that the defeated side will fight until the last soldier.

This is the case in Siberia. Wherever you go, you will die. If you return to the original road, you will die. If you live on the ice sheet, you will die. If you arrive at the target and fight a battle, you will have the greatest chance of survival.

"But I'm not worried about them threatening Monan."

Liu Chengzong shook his head with a smile, and then raised his hand to cover the boundless unknown land in the north of Jiantu: "What I want is this land, where there are inexhaustible furs. In 100 or 200 years, we can use them as much as we want." Go up, but you can't give it away—blocking the Ural Mountains is a real great cause!"

Zhang Xianzhong's eyes widened. There were so many gags in his words that he didn't know where to start. He only thought that Liu Chengzong was crazy.

He has been attached to the Marshal's Mansion for some time. As a senior official, he knows the specific situation of the Marshal's Mansion better than many qualified generals.

Let’s not say that it’s very petty to start a war for a little fur. Just say that the biggest specialty on the territory of the Marshal’s Mansion is fucking fur. Even so, as soon as Oirat's fur was delivered, it directly collapsed the leather industry in Xining Prefecture.

That's it, do you think there is too little fur?
What do you want so much skin for?
Zhang Xianzhong was puzzled, thinking that Liu Shizi is not a particularly greedy person, not to mention that even if he is particularly greedy, let's directly call down Hanzhong Mansion, what do we want?What are you doing staring at the barren land in the north?

But when it comes to this, Lao Zhang suddenly remembered what he was doing here, and immediately, regardless of whether he understood Liu Chengzong's spirit or not, he directly clasped his fists and said: "Marshal, I want to send troops to the territory of the Wala Tartars. I have one It can save a year of training time."

"What count?"

"Sweeping king Zhang Yichuan, has the commander heard of it?"

Liu Chengzong nodded, a bit impressed, a rising star in the rebel army.

At the earliest, they met in Qingjian and decided on a four-way strategy to enter Shanxi. At that time, Zhang Yichuan was still a small leader with hundreds of troops, and he was not even qualified to enter the house, so he defected to Gao Yingxiang, who ranked third.

But later Wang Zuohang surrendered in Suide and was appeased. One of his subordinates, Ke Tianhu, followed Zhang Yichuan. Equally famous second-rate leader.

Liu Chengzong asked: "I remember that he is the leader of the joint camp with Brother Li. He is known as the Fifth Battalion, right?"

"Yes, it's him, working with Huang Wazi." Zhang Xianzhong nodded excitedly, and said, "He sent someone to look for me. He couldn't bear it in the mountains and was looking for something to do. His thousands of troops are very reliable. Send him to Tianshan Mountain Bar."

Liu Chengzong pondered, you said to save training time, what should I think is a good strategy, that's it?
The training time in his mind was actually the two years after he was transferred to Tianshan Mountain. The new recruits were in the military training for one year. They mainly learned speech and survival skills on the ice field. Even if Zhang Yichuan came here, he still had to learn this.

On the contrary, the talents of Zhang Yichuan's troops who are used to fighting are not needed in the north at all.

In Liu Chengzong's heart, the Tianshan Army and the Luocha army expanding eastward would not fight at all. The real Raksha heroes would die in the battle for the throne, and would not go to Siberia to learn how to call a fox or watch a shaman dance a great god.

The Raksha people rely on the river to advance, and the Tianshan Army of the Marshal's Mansion also relies on the river to advance; the Raksha people build forts at important nodes of the river, and the Tianshan Army of the Marshal's Mansion also builds forts at important nodes of the river—it is nothing more than fighting for technology and troops , Fighting for arms capabilities, who is afraid of whom?
Build fortresses on several main roads that must pass through rivers, and cut off the main roads between east and west directly in the middle, so what if you expand the east side even more?

As long as the Tianshan Army can withstand it in the west, Liu Chengzong can completely kill all the Luocha soldiers who have penetrated into the Far East until they become Mongols.

What kind of battle will you fight, and who will you fight with?
Why let Zhang Yichuan lead the troops there, it is better to stay in the Central Plains to contain the officers and soldiers.

Every year, [-] troops learn to fish, sail boats, build castles, and speak, and spend two years stationed in Siberia. They may come back after failing to fight a single battle. This counts as three years of defense on the border. When they come back, they will be veterans who can go to the Central Plains battlefield. Lu Shixiu's Baozi Navy can do all the work of driving a small boat, this is Liu Chengzong's plan.

Seeing that Liu Chengzong was not interested in this proposal, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help feeling anxious.

Of course he didn't hold back in recommending Zhang Yichuan, he was the one who got the news that Zhang Yichuan planned to break into Fengyang Mansion to dig the old Zhu's ancestral grave - this is what Zhang Xianzhong wants to do, we must not let Zhang Yichuan come out on top, Just when I heard that Liu Shizi was going to be recruited for the Tianshan Army, I rushed to recommend him.

"The commander-in-chief, let's meet Zhang Yichuan, he wants to go to Henan! We can't let him go, he went to Henan, where will we save the face of the Marshal's mansion?"

"He's going to Henan?"

Liu Chengzong was overjoyed, it's good to enter Henan, let's go together, he directly beckoned to Yu Linqi and said: "Go to Gansu quickly, transfer the Sanjie Camp to the south, let Wang Zi use it to see me."

As he said that, he turned his head to Zhang Xianzhong and said, "Call Zhang Yichuan to see me, and ask him what he lacks in guns, cannons, uniforms, armor, chariots and horses, and what I will give!"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)