Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 866 Decisive Battle in Sand City ([-])
Tumen Khan failed to understand Burhatu's statement. What does it mean that "naturalization is only Tumed's naturalization, while Zhongdu is the central capital of Dayuan"?And what does this have to do with high pragmatic ambitions?

Fortunately, Burihatu seemed to see Tumen Khan's confusion, so he continued to explain: "To naturalize and confer the title of King Shunyi is at best to recognize Chechen Khan's status in Tumed, and to be great is to admit that he has great influence on the right wing. The actual control of Mongolia, but if it is in Zhongdu, then there are deeper intentions."

He paused, and said, "China is one of the four capitals of the Yuan Dynasty. Except for the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and the Great Khan of Mongolia, how can the Khans of other ministries be canonized there? Gao Wushi deliberately did the opposite. In other words, isn’t the real far-reaching purpose implying that Chechen Khan should rule the entire Mongolia in the future? Is the Great Khan still indifferent to such a move?”

what!He actually wanted to support Tumed Chechen Khan as the Great Khan of all Mongolia?
Tumen Khan suddenly flew into a rage: "Little Huangkou, how dare you bully me!"

Brihatu remained silent, while the enraged Tumen Khan walked around in the tent like a trapped animal.

After a while, Tumen Khan stopped suddenly, turned to Buri Hatu and said, "Briha Tutaiji, do you still think that we should raise the city first?"

Brihatu said with some hesitation: "Chen... I still hesitate."

"There's no reason to hesitate!" Tumen Khan said loudly, "Ming people don't take Ben Khan seriously. If we don't teach them a lesson, what is the majesty of Ben Khan? According to Ben Khan's idea, we should do it now." Send troops directly to Shacheng, capture that Gao Yushi and cut him into pieces! If not, it would be hard to get rid of the hatred in my heart!"

Brihatu was not frightened by Tumen Khan's fury, but said with a puzzled face, "But Shacheng is too close to Zhangjiakou. If the Great Khan's troops attack Shacheng, what if the Ming army goes out?"

Tumen Khan laughed angrily: "Ming army going out of the fortress? Ha, Ben Khan would like them to go out of the fortress! On the grassland, Ben Khan will be afraid of the mere Ming army? How can these Han people fight without a strong city to rely on!"

But Brihatu still hesitated, and reminded: "But we have analyzed it before. There is a great possibility that Han Naji fled south to lure us to the south to set up an ambush. If he cooperates with the Ming army... "

Tumen Khan said loudly: "If I don't know about setting up an ambush, it's called setting up an ambush. I already know it, so why would he set up an ambush?" Is it possible that Ben Khan's [-] troops have been surrounded?"

Uh, well, there seems to be some truth to this?
Brihatu thought for a while, and agreed with this statement, and nodded slowly: "That's the reason..."

Tumen Khan waved his hand immediately: "Okay, don't think too much about this matter, it is indeed important to raise the big board to the city, but before taking the big board and raising the city, Ben Khan must go to the Ming Dynasty for a while. People's Plenipotentiary Envoy, let's see what kind of number one scholar he is, how much he weighs, he is so bold!"

Tumen Khan's current state of mind, if people of later generations were to describe it, it would probably be "If I don't beat you with flowers all over your face, you won't know why the flowers are so red!"

Brihatu also felt the anger from the heart of Tumen Dahan, and he couldn't persuade him anymore after Dahan's words-are you looking down on the combat effectiveness of our elite Chahar department?

Therefore, Brihatu had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and reluctantly said: "Since this is the case, please send more scouts when the Khan goes south. We must find out the location and deployment of Hanaji's troops in advance, and we must not give it to you." They took a back route..."

"Ben Khan knows how to fight!" Tumen Khan lost his temper at this time, and any doubts about his strength were like sparks thrown into a frying pan.

Brihatu had no choice but to shut up.

It was meaningless to go on, Brihatu sighed in his heart, got up to leave, Tumen was in a rage, and let him go with a wave of his hand.

At the same time, Gao Wushi who was in Shacheng had just returned from inspecting the city defenses and was talking to Cao Gan, Ma Gui and others.

"The method of building a city with cement, I demonstrated it in front of the empress dowagers of the two palaces and the emperor ten years ago. Now it seems that there has been a little progress in the past ten years. Although a lot of cement was wasted to strengthen the city defense of Shacheng this time, Over the past few days, Shacheng is finally no longer the dilapidated look it used to be.” [For details, see Volume 101 of this book, “Crown Jinghua”, Chapter [-], “Jinghua Infrastructure”. ]
Ma Gui praised: "We have used cement to build a city at the border for ten years, and we have strengthened at least thousands of miles of city walls. The effect has always been very good. It is much better than using glutinous rice to ram earth. It is both cheap and strong. Today The actual measurement also confirmed this point, although the sand city is dilapidated, but after the city wall is reinforced with cement, unless it is bombarded by hundreds of general cannons in turn, it is absolutely impossible to be attacked head-on."

Hundreds of general cannons bombarded them in turn. This is obviously a bit exaggerated, but since the opponent is from the Chahar tribe of Mongolia, it doesn't matter if they say that, because they can't have hundreds of general cannons.Not to mention them, even with the level of firearms of the Ming army itself, it is not easy to gather hundreds of general cannons.

Gao Wushi smiled, but said nothing.

He is now a "Shangguan", and it doesn't matter if the people below praise him, but he himself can't get carried away.

So instead, he turned his head and praised Cao Gan, saying, "I am very satisfied with the performance of the Jinghua Trading Company this time. It is not easy to mobilize so many materials from Zhangjiakou and arrange construction. You have worked hard."

Cao Gan's heart warmed, but his tone was very modest: "Master, I'm honored. In fact, it's all thanks to my master's good arrangement in advance, especially the selection of this sand city as the main battlefield. At last most of the city wall is still preserved, and the master has gathered so many troops here to help with the construction..."

Gao Wushi smiled, waved his hands and said, "Okay, okay, you all have made great contributions this time, Cao Gan is here in Jinghua's internal affairs, but there is a performance comparison reward... Ma Zongrong, your contribution will be made by the Benqin Council." Play it to the emperor personally."

Both smiled and thanked.

Ma Gui said again: "Now let's see if the pictures will fall into the trap."

Cao Gan said with a smile: "Don't worry about this. My master has a clever plan, and the little tricks of the Tus can't escape my master's plan. This time he will definitely come down to Shacheng to meet his head and blood... Otherwise, let him allow Han Naji to be canonized in the old Yuan Dynasty, how can he be safe as a Mongolian Khan?"

Ma Gui hurriedly said: "Naturally needless to say Gao Shizhong's ingenious calculations, I'm just afraid that those people are stupid, don't understand the meaning of Han Naji in the capital, then... a bit embarrassing."

Gao Wushi shook his head and said: "Tumen is not stupid. If he was stupid, he would not have chosen to continue the westward expedition after Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang sent troops. Since he can choose to continue the westward expedition regardless of the rear, it shows that he knows Tumote well. The importance to Mongolia, in other words, he can be regarded as a visionary, such a person will not fail to see the inner meaning of this matter."

"So that's how it is..." Ma Gui finally understood, and said sincerely: "The waiter is really insightful about Mongolia, as long as this battle of Shacheng is really victorious, at worst, it will make the Mongols breathless for ten years. "

Gao Wushi smiled and said nothing.

Can't breathe for ten years?
Ma Gui's strategic thinking is still a bit lacking, and his vision is still too limited.

The Battle of Sand City is certainly important, but it is only a part of the entire Monan strategy. In fact, once the entire Monan strategy is fully successful, the Mongols will have a noose around their necks. When does Ming want to let him die? , just kick the stool under his feet.

Of course, Gao Wushi feels that there is no need to be too anxious about kicking the stool. What he wants is a Mongolia with basically complete strength, not a Mongolia that has been beaten in a mess and its strength has been greatly damaged.Therefore, after this big victory, it is enough to use other methods to make Tumen have to bow their heads to reality, but there is no need to kill him-killing a Mongolian Khan, in addition to earning him a great contribution to his high pragmatism, is the most important thing. It can only bring hatred to Daming, which will not be of any benefit to ruling Mongolia in the future.

great merit?

Gao Yushi curled his lips, thinking a little reservedly in his heart: Is it so difficult for me, Gao, to make great achievements?But what I want is not a temporary achievement, but a lifetime achievement.
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