stubborn thief

These days exhausted Chen Qiyu and Lian's state affairs.

Chen Qiyu Qingyang Mansion inspected the battlefield, Xi'an Mansion tried to find a way to mobilize troops, so they borrowed Zu Kuan's Liao soldiers from Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Da Lena in Huguang to support them.

Practicing state affairs is also running on both sides. He is constantly wandering between Qinzhou and Xi'an, mainly to get food and prepare for war, coerce and lure, beg for alms, anyway, he has tried all the tricks that can be used.

The two of them were exhausted enough, but they didn't dare to relax at all. They both knew that the Marshal's Mansion was about to run out of food. The line of defense is opened, but I just don't know when he is going to fight this battle.

The official roads of Qinzhou and Guyuan also saw more foreigners coming and going. There were not only pawns and peddlers sent by the Marshal's Mansion, but also small merchants and peddlers sent by the Ming court. Fire escape, but most of the time they just look at each other and carry out their respective missions.

The wait before war is the most frightening.

But no one expected that Sichuan was the first to ask for help from the imperial court.

On the fifth day of April, a letter from Sichuan Governor Liu Hanru was sent to Qin Fulian State Affairs, saying that the Marshal's army had entered Sichuan, and that Mingshan and Lushan counties in Yazhou were occupied by Fanbing.

Lian Guoshi looked at the letter with one head and two big heads: How could Yazhou be captured?

Although he didn't know the geographical location of Yazhou clearly, he knew that there was Yazhou on the western border of Sichuan, which was the key point of the tea-horse road.

But what he didn't understand was, why was he attacked?In other words, there are so many places that can be attacked, why is Yazhou on the western border of Sichuan, and why was it attacked at a critical moment before the war in Shaanxi?

The first thought in Lian Guoshi's mind was that Liu Chengzong wanted to mobilize the Shaanxi Ming army to go to Sichuan to suppress the bandits.

When the Qin army entered Sichuan, the peasant army in the mountains attacked in large numbers and cut off Hanzhong. The commander of the marshal drove to Guanzhong and blocked the Qin army in the Sichuan Basin. , the situation started from here!

But in fact, Liu Chengzong from Lanzhou also just learned the news, but the focus of the information is different.

In Liu Chengzong's case, because the Marshal's Mansion was complete on Kangning Post Road, the news was more immediate, and his army had actually retreated from Yazhou to western Sichuan.

Because of the winter, the north and south of the Marshal's Mansion have been cut off for four months. The post road has just been restored, and letters are sent to the Secretary of General Administration, and Lin Wei summarizes them and submits them to Liu Shizi.

Liu Chengzong looked at the Kangning Mansion report compiled by Lin Wei, and thought that Kangning is really lively this winter!
Last autumn, Liu Guoneng of Kangning Mansion took his order to avenge Muya, and started a war with Shen Bian and Leng Bian chieftains on the east side of the Dadu River. The guns and artillery formed a dimensionality reduction blow to the chieftain soldiers of Shen and Leng.

People don't even have a few matchlock guns, and the army is drawn out to fight with a large square of spears. The Changhexi side is better. When the army is drawn to the battlefield, they play music with heavy guns. A big iron ball plows a bloody path How to fight this battle.

The battle was brutal, but to Feng Shuangli... it wasn't fun.

What's more, the income is not as big as Liu Guoneng, who sits in Nangqian, imagined. Unlike Muya, the chieftains of Shen Leng's family are all on the west bank of the Dadu River. Their territory is on the east bank, closer to the Ming side. Many properties are located in Yazhou, Meizhou and even Chengdu.

However, Feng Shuangli discovered one thing during the battle, that is, both the Shen and Leng families had stored a lot of tea cakes, which were to be sold into Uszang. The source of these tea cakes was the tea mountains in Mingshan and Lushan counties.

The Marshal's Mansion has already mastered the production areas of salt, iron, and tobacco with huge reserves, which are all things that consume a lot, but it has not yet grasped the production areas of special products such as tea.

The winter in western Sichuan is also quite cold. Feng Shuangli's troops were stationed on the east and west banks of the Dadu River to rest, and then they received an urgent letter from Liu Guoneng, saying that the three Mongolian Taiji from Uszang had sent us work.

To put it bluntly, after Taiji entered the autumn, he routinely plundered in the Lhasa Valley. The three Taijis in Huoluochi were almost unable to be defeated in Uzang, so all they had to do was speak harshly and tell them to hide in the Zongshan Fort in Shigatse. Tsangpa Khan, the reinforcements from the Generalissimo's Mansion will arrive soon, and they will destroy you when they arrive!
Zangba Khan heard the rumors and was in panic all day long.

Regardless of the fact that U-Tsang is a closed place, and the Marshal's Mansion has never sent troops into U-Tsang, the name of Liu Chengzong is very important to Tsangba Khan.

Because Dunyue Dorji was his powerful ally, a tyrant in the southwest, and very powerful, one day Liu Chengzong led the Han army from the north to drive the Tartars down, and Dunyue Dorji died suddenly without making any decent resistance.

In fact, for Zangba Khan, if it was not Huoluochi's three shabby households who entered Tibet back then, but Liu Chengzong, who had the prestige of a great victory, he might have voted at that time.

Even if they did not surrender, they would most likely run from Nepal to India.

But he didn’t run away at that time, and it’s too late to run now. Now only the section from Shigatse to Lhasa is still under his control, and other places are full of Mongolian cavalry, even in the territory passed down by their family for generations. I don't know how many spies were bought by the Mongols.

He made preparations to escape today, and the news would be known to Guru Taiji tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow he said that Taiji killed him on the way.

Therefore, Zangba Khan had no choice but to be a dead horse as a living horse doctor. He asked his own Dharma king to send people to Sichuan to ask for help from the Ming army. Energy, even if the emperor gave Liu Chengzong an order, don't let him enter Tibet and it's over.

Anyway, these three Mongol Taiji really seemed to be dragged to death by him.

But Zangba Khan himself is about to die. He is finished not because of his military strength, but because of his people's hearts.

Almost all the upper religious aristocrats in U-Tsang fell to the little Lhazun.

The monks don’t really care who the leader of the tribe is at the secular level. For them, it’s no problem for Zangba to lead Uszang as an aristocrat rising from the native township of Uszang; it’s no problem for the Mongolian brothers from the grasslands to lead the secular tribes on the snow-capped mountains. but.

Because this is the perfect agreement reached by Master Sakya Pandita and Prince Kuoduan in the Liangzhou League 400 years ago: Mongolian cavalry can freely enter the snow area and lead all Tibetan tribes at the secular level; Snow mountain Buddhism can also freely enter the Mongolian plateau, guiding the tribes of Mongolia on a spiritual level.

So at the beginning of this dispute, more than half of the religious people did not get involved, and the remaining monks who chose sides had no other way to do it because the flames of war burned on themselves. different factions.

They attack each other, and the monks will suffer innocent disasters.

But last winter, the situation changed a lot, and the upper-level monks in U-Tsang realized that it was time to choose sides.

The cause of the change came from a news of mourning in the Mongolian plateau. The head teacher and living Buddha over there died of illness. The monks and Mongolian guards who ran all the way with the news were detained as soon as they entered Gansu. Gansu is at war.

The person who detained them was Gao Yingdeng, and the news was reported to Cao Yao. Cao Yao sent someone to check their belongings, and found that they were indeed going to the snow mountain to report a funeral, so he sent a small group of soldiers to Xining.

Master Liu in Xining was in charge of this matter, he didn't make it difficult for them, he opened the door of convenience, picked five Habayashi cavalry, and each led ten cowardly Ordos to escort them all the way through the post station of the Marshal's Mansion.

The 55 guards along the way were all talented people who knew both Mongolian and Western languages. Liu Xiangyu’s idea at the time was to form a good relationship. After all, the Ming army was planning to attack the Hehuang Valley at that time. No one in Hehuang would say Not sure what will happen.

However, Liu Xiangyu was far from frightened at the time. Anyway, he had a retreat in his heart. He thought that if the army was defeated, he would take his son and retreat all the way to Uzang. It is not difficult to establish a separatist dynasty on the snow mountain.

So it's not a big deal to help with a funeral, maybe you will be a neighbor in the future.

Liu Xiangyu's instructions to the Yulin riders were to carefully watch the funeral team on the road, listen to their conversations, and if they found that they were making trouble instead of reporting funerals, they would contact the Kangning Mansion Garrison on the road to kill them all.

Fortunately, this team was indeed reporting the funeral, so the guards escorted them to Lhasa.

After arriving in Lhasa, Yulinqi and Qi Xuejie went back, and the people on the snow mountain found a problem: it was easy to come in when they came in, but when it was time to send someone to the Mongolian plateau to find the reincarnation, something happened and they couldn't get out!
Yubayashi rode into Tibet under the order of Master Liu, and the journey was unimpeded; but after Yubayashi rode away, the Kangning Mansion was in charge of Liu Guoneng, and one of the major responsibilities of the Kangning prefect was to block Wusi Tibet, a small animal Don't even think about passing through Qamdo.

The only monk on the snow mountain who can talk to the Kangning Mansion is Xiao Lazun, a Mongolian Living Buddha from Qinghai.

Xiao Lazun was also very helpless, he couldn't solve this matter, among the three of them, only Yan Taiji could talk to Liu Chengzong, but he could only talk to him.

What's more, he knew very well in his heart that public affairs belonged to public affairs. Even if it was a private matter such as finding the reincarnation, he could only ask Liu Chengzong once before they achieved stable rule over the entire Uzbek territory.

And that time, it was impossible for Xiao Lazun to waste it on others.

They spread their hands and told everyone: "Right now, the war in Uzang should be ended as soon as possible, otherwise my two older brothers will be too useless in the eyes of the Great Khan. I am not forcing you to make a choice, this is your problem. It has nothing to do with me, anyway, my reincarnation will definitely go to the family of Grand Marshal, Khitan Khan Liu Chengzong."

"As for your reincarnations, tsk, the Generalissimo's army is stationed at the Six Hills of Dokang, and it may be very difficult to send them to places other than Uzang."

"But don't worry, even if someone supports Zangba, when the war is over, if my brother doesn't let him reincarnate in U-Tsang, then even if you give me a dream, I will intercede, and he will always be reincarnated in U-Tsang .”

Who can support Zangba?
Little Lhazun has already made it clear that if he supports Zangba, even reincarnation in Uzang will be a problem.

He was talking about Tommy.

Supporting Zangba now, the best situation is that Zangba wins, and he can be reincarnated in U-Tsang in the future, at least Zangba abides by the rules, but don’t think about it outside of U-Tsang, Zangba doesn’t have that much ability; The three brothers Guru, Baiyan, and Lazun won, so they would not be able to reincarnate.

On the other hand, supporting Guru and the three brothers, even if Zangba won, he would not be so unruly as to prevent them from being reincarnated.

However, there are always heroes who show their true colors in the vicissitudes of life. A dharma king who is closely related to Zangba still came out of the mountain and sent [-] people to find Daming for help.

It's a pity that the people who asked for help leaked the news before they left Lhasa. He said that Taiji received the news and immediately asked Qamdo in Kangning Prefecture to interrogate and kill. , When they entered the boundary of Feng Shuangli's garrison, six more people died.

In the end, there were only two ways to escape into Sichuan.

Feng Shuangli had originally planned to go down the mountain this year to snatch the tea producing area from the Marshal's Mansion, and he had been preparing to break through the defenses since last autumn, when the envoys of Zangba Khan also entered Yazhou, he simply attacked ahead of time.

It was a coincidence that last year there was a plague of locusts. Liu Guoneng hammered the chieftains on the border in Kangning Mansion. , The site was also robbed by Feng Shuangli a lot.

In the end, it was Liu Guoneng who saw that the two sides were fighting more and more fiercely, so he came forward to discuss a truce with Chieftain Tianquan years ago.

It's not that he doesn't want to fight, the main thing is that his main job this year is to let Li Laozhen and Feng Shuangli enter Tibet, and he doesn't want to make extra troubles.

What's more, in his heart, this Tianquan Chieftain's territory is very large, and he can save it until next year or the year after that when he can free up his hands to clean it up. At that time, he can directly repay the debt owed by the commander for three or four years.

It just so happened that Chieftain Tianquan didn't want to fight endlessly with the Marshal's Mansion, and the result of the final discussion was that he allocated the land of the two Chieftains of Shen Leng to Muya, and Liu Guoneng spit back the other land that Feng Shuangli had conquered and returned it to Tianquan. toast.

They did cease fighting, but the momentum frightened the Sichuan officials and soldiers, not counting the garrison in Yazhou, and a few local generals were transferred from the Sichuan Xingdu Division, and nearly [-] troops were assembled to guard the vicinity of Yazhou for a whole winter. .

It wasn't until the end of the new year that the governor Liu Hanru had just transferred the soldiers back to Xingdusi. The spirit of the Yazhou garrison had been tense all winter, and finally relaxed. Feng Shuangli led the army to kill them. It took only [-] soldiers to rush out. After passing Feixianguan, hundreds of households broke through the gates and soldiers came to the city of Yazhou.

Yazhou is a small town close to the Qingyi River. Feng Shuangli came down from the west of Sichuan without cannons, so there was nothing he could do about it. Fortunately, his battalion, apart from the old bandits from Shaanxi who followed Zhang Xianzhong, were hardworking Sichuan soldiers who were used to walking the mountain roads. , That night, they bypassed the city and directly attacked Mingshan County.

Mingshan County had just received the news, before it had time to fortify, it was attacked by Feng Shuangli that day.

Feng Shuangli is very young, but he has broken through more than a dozen cities with Zhang Xianzhong, and he is very familiar with the rebellion process of killing or burying. On the same day, he opened a warehouse to distribute food and recruit rebels. After looting all the tea leaves, the army expanded to more than 7000 people, and turned back to Lushan County in a mighty manner.

This time they failed to enter the city, but as usual, they plundered all the outside of the city. The mighty bankrupt peasants and servant boys headed west of Sichuan with tea and grain on their backs.

Feng Shuangli kept [-] troops by his side. He planned to play in Sichuan for a while, and even crossed the Minjiang River to visit Chengdu, but he didn't expect an army to come from the south, which frightened him.

This army came from Yunnan. The general named Long Zaitian was a local official with a low official position. In one battle, the governor Liu Hanru was transferred to fight Feng Shuangli.

Feng Shuangli wanted to meet him at first, but he didn't expect that Long Zaitian had too many troops, he brought nine thousand five hundred soldiers and two thousand cavalry.

The most outrageous thing is that there are four war elephants.

That big black guy shook the mountain with sixteen legs when he got close, and Feng Shuangli didn't bring a cannon, and the soldiers under the bid were able to head forward with their guns buried in their heads, but they had never seen such a thing before. He was so frightened that he broke up for a while, and ran back to Kangning Mansion without hesitation.

The first thing Feng Shuangli did after fleeing back to Kangning Mansion was to write a letter to Liu Chengzong. He had figured it out that Long Zaitian's army could not enter Kangning, and the target was definitely the Marshal Army in Shaanxi.

"War elephant?"

Liu Chengzong put down the letter and rubbed his hands, and said with emotion: "Long Zaitian is a good person, Zhan Xiang...is it delicious?" (End of this chapter)