Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 376
The spring of the first year of Longde was a season full of passion and change for Dazheng.

With the southward movement of Beibei people, the civil strife in Nanwu, Dazheng's greatest enemy, and the extremely full treasury (Zhang Xinzhi's surplus of more than 1000 million yuan), Dazheng is beating the enemy violently in all directions.

From Xilu in the southwest to the three kingdoms of Dai, Chen, and Wei in the north, as many as two and a half counties fell into the territory of Dazheng this spring alone.

Emperor Longde was full of ambition, and under his signal, the speed of change of old and new in the court was artificially accelerated.

Among them, Li Danian, the second assistant to the cabinet, is the most eye-catching.

The imperial party used the excuse of Cao's entry into the empress dowager, and began to force the former emperor's veterans to stand in line.But everyone knows that as long as these veteran ministers still have a little official voice, it will not be a fact that Cao's entry into the queen mother will become a reality.

Otherwise, a reputation of being disloyal to the former emperor and flattering the new emperor can make them stink a few streets in the history.

At the beginning of March, as the chief assistant Sun Gezheng "declared illness", Liu Jiansheng, the former chief historian of the East Palace, and later the Minister of the Ministry of officials, was promoted to the cabinet and became Jifu. Dazheng also officially entered the period when Liu Jiansheng actually ruled.

The grassland in March has returned to its former greenness. It seems that the disasters of the past few years are just a dream for everyone.

Xigu County in the north of Chen State was captured by the Beibei people last winter, and now it is where Xingkong Khan resides, and it is also the command center for the Beibei people to go south.

The original Sheriff's Mansion was burned to a white ground, and now a huge golden sweat tent has been erected on this place.

Thousands of guards of the king's court with their chests and stomachs puffed up were using their chins to look at a few people from the Central Plains who had retreated from the king's tent.

The faces of these Central Plains people were full of embarrassment and shame.

They are the envoys of Chen Guo.

These envoys from the Kingdom of Chen came here to express their complete surrender to the royal court of Beibei on behalf of the Kingdom of Chen.

For 200 years, the countries of the Central Plains blocked the defense line of the grassland tribes going south to the Central Plains, and finally a huge hole appeared.

Soon, hundreds of royal court messengers flew out, and Xingkong Khan was going to gather [-] cavalry in Chen Guo, running through Chen Guo from north to south, drinking horses in the Yellow River Basin, and detaining Dazheng at the border.

Dazheng's Anzi in Chen Guo desperately sent the news, and the flames of war in all parts of the north were extinguished almost overnight.

The princes of Hedong, Marquis of Nanxiang, Linsi, Dengyang and Taining withdrew from Dai, Chen and Wei.However, soldiers from Dai State and Wei State gathered at the border of Chen State.

Who knew that Xingkong Khan's [-] cavalry gathered in Chen Guo would eventually go south to attack Zheng and turned to attack Dai and Wei.

In particular, Dai Guo, who has some feuds with the Beibei people, has sent cavalry into Chen Guo's territory and began to harass Chen Guo's counties.

The turmoil in the Dazheng court came to an abrupt end before the horseshoes of the Beibei people, and Gu Chiu, who was about to retire, was comforted by the emperor.Emperor Longde issued an edict ordering the Marquis of Nanxiang to lead the army and horses from all over Hebei to gather in Yunyoudao, and then transfer to the newly acquired Maoyang County of Chen State as a whole, and start confrontation with the Beibei army a hundred miles away.

Under the layout of Xingkong Khan, the fourth part of the wilderness outside Qinguan once again blocked the ancient road, and the road from Yunshang County to the inside of the pass was cut off.

Yunshang County doesn't know anything about it yet.

In the northwest of the Yunbei Grassland, the twelve-star flag belonging to Xingkong Khan is flying.

A force of [-] cavalry is crossing the traditional line of influence between the Beibei and the Waqiang people.A large number of cavalry lazily followed the swaying of the horses, and on one side of the low hill, there were seven or eight people riding fine horses watching the surrounding situation.

The one standing on the highest point was the general who led the cavalry—Mo Bahu, who was born as a close friend of Xingkong Khan's bodyguards, and was a well-known warrior among the Beibei people.

The figure of this Beibei titan is not outstanding, but looks abnormally thin, and the few scars on his face make Mo Bahu look extraordinarily ferocious when he smiles.

Mo Bahu looked at the Yunbei Grassland in front of him, and thought of the instructions of the great Xingkong Khan.

This time the Great Khan asked him to lead his troops to the Yunbei Grassland, nominally to capture the Yunshang County of the Zheng people, but in reality it was to test the Waqiang people.

Unlike the Beibei people who opened up the situation in Chen State, this time the main force of the Waqiang people fell into a bitter battle in the southwestern Ammu kingdoms, which caused the fighting power of the Waqiang people to reduce to the lowest point in history.

This time, Xingkong Khan used the reason of the war with the Zheng people to send troops into the Yunbei Grassland, which belongs to the traditional peripheral power area of ​​the Waqiang people, in fact to test whether the Waqiang people have left a hand.

If not, Mo Bahu will carry out the secret order of the Great Khan and bring the entire Yunnan area under the control of the Beibei people.

"There are 24 tribes in Yunbei, and now there are 22 left." Mo Bahu pointed his horsewhip to the front and said to the lieutenant beside him, "Dozens of days ago, most of the men from these tribes followed the Waqiang people. Mu. I guess they are all the tribes united, and there will not be more than 2000 men who can ride horses now!"

"Chiwuba," Mo Bahu called his lieutenant general, "I will give you 1000 people to wipe out the Changji tribe that is closest to us! Tell your sons to pay attention. When you wipe out the Changji tribe, you must Let more Changji people on horseback run out."

The big Chiuba patted himself on the chest after hearing the commander's order.

"Don't worry, my lord. I will spread my lord's reputation to every tribe in Yunnan. They will either join the Great Khan or wait to become food for vultures."

Mo Bahu tapped Chiwuba on the shoulder with a whip.

"My friend, I hope you don't rush forward. I let you wipe out the Changji tribe, just to let the men of these tribes gather together under the pressure of your blade, and then we can wipe them out in one fell swoop, so that we don't have to spend a lot of effort. Go all over the prairie to chase these poor rabbits."

Chiwuba smiled nonchalantly: "My lord, if those Central Plains people hiding in the southernmost part of the grassland have the courage to attack us with other tribes, it would be great if we don't have to run from north to south."

"Hehehe," Mo Bahu laughed loudly, "People from the Central Plains will only tremble behind the city wall. Even if you only take a hundred people there, they won't even take a step out of the city."

Chiwuba's action to slaughter the Changji tribe was almost effortless.

When his troops came to the outskirts of the Changji Department, there were less than a hundred men in the Changji Department that could fight.

The elite Beibei cavalry faced the Changji cavalry, and the Changji people were no match at all.

Chiwuba's men fell on the grassland with just two charges.

Then the Beibei people skillfully pulled down the fence in Changji.

The clanging of swords and guns resounded in every corner of Changji, and the corpses of Changji people, young and old, were all over the ground.

In the end, those who could ride horses had escaped, and those who remained in the camp to continue to resist the Beibei people were old men with gray beards.

The news that the Beibei people entered Yunnan and slaughtered the Changji tribe quickly spread throughout Yunnan like the wind.

For the invasion of the Beibei people, most tribes chose to unite to resist.Because their young and strong are all in the army of the Waqiang people, if they defect to the Beibei people at this moment, they will implicate the young and strong who are going out.

Of course, there were still three tribes who chose to submit. Their King Khan appeared outside Mo Bahu's military tent night and night, prostrated on the ground and kissed Mo Bahu's boots like a slave.

The remaining 14 tribes began to gather all the men and horses, even 50-year-old children and 300-year-olds rode on horses.They combined [-] troops in the central part of Yunnan, preparing to resist Mo Bahu's [-] cavalry.

At the same time, they sent envoys to the headquarters of the Waqiang people asking for help, but they all "forgot" to inform Yunshang County.

On the grasslands, where the news is far behind that of the Central Plains, the ministries in northern Yunnan still believe that the Beibei people and the Zheng people wear the same pair of pants.

"Is the news accurate?"

Zhang Sanqi nodded to Zhang Zhe.

"In winter, some herdsmen were so poor that their families had only one horse left. I didn't buy their horses, but I also gave them some rations. This was passed to me by some of the herdsmen on flying horses."

"Mo Bahu?" Xu Jidao had heard of this name before.

"I remember that when I was with the Beibei people, Mo Ba was almost a well-known Beibei fierce general. I am afraid that the various ministries in Yunnan will not be his opponents!"

"Strange!" Gao Deshu was a little puzzled, "Beibei people are attacking the three northern countries at the moment, and even the greedy Wilderness Sibu dare not go one step further, so as not to destroy Xingkong Khan's layout. As the king's tent general, Why did this Mo Bahu suddenly come to provoke all the ministries in Yunnan, isn't he afraid that the Waqiang people will turn their backs?"

Xie Lun shook his head after hearing Gao Deshu's question.

"Now the Waqiang people's center of gravity and main force are in the southwest. If they can hold their own grasslands, they have to burn a few pillars of high incense. According to someone, even if the Beibei people annexed Yunnan for a while, I'm afraid there won't be any big reaction. It's really strange that people from Beibei suddenly did this."

Zhang Zhe suddenly looked at Chen Jiong.

"How's the alum deal this month?"

Alum from Guannei is the most important purchase in Yunshang County. Chen Jiong set up a purchasing station at the water source at the other end of the sand sea to buy alum at a high price.Merchants who transport alum from the customs to trade will usually arrive at the purchasing station at the beginning of the month.

Chen Jiong thought about it for a while: "The people in charge of collecting alum in the desert haven't heard back yet, and it's already seven or eight days later than usual."

Zhang Zhe walked slowly around the hall a few times with his hands behind his back, and finally came to Ganxiu.

"Come on, how is your armored cavalry thousand man training?"

"The training given by the adults is basically the same. Are you going to send troops?" Ganxiu seemed a little eager to try when he heard Zhang Zhe's question.

"I'm afraid something happened in the pass!" Zhang Zhe returned to his main position, and told everyone his inference, "It is very likely that the Beibei people have gained certain advantages in the three northern countries, or they have simply Otherwise, with Xingkong Khan’s prudence before, he would not have sent Mo Bahu to test the Waqiang people.”

"Mr. Chen, immediately contact the desert side to see if there is any action in the fourth part of the wasteland?"

"promise!"

"If the fourth part of the wasteland takes action, it means that the relationship between our Dazheng and the Beibei people is very delicate!"

"Sharon!"

"exist!"

"You immediately select 3000 people from the military training camp, together with your thousand-man team, take over the four city gates from now on, and strengthen the guards day and night!"

"promise!"

"Geng Liang!"

"exist!"

"You take your thousand-man team, one man and two horses, and immediately enter the first oasis in the east to stand by. If there is bad news from there, your thousand-man team will immediately cross the sand sea and arrive at the water source of the seam. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so you can rely on it to block the cavalry from the fourth part of the wilderness in the middle of the ancient road."

"promise!"

"Gao Deshu, you go to the military training camp immediately to select 1000 people to be incorporated into your thousand-man team, and the rest of the armored cavalry are all ready, prepare the supplies, and are ready to attack at any time."

"No!" "No!"

"Thirty-seven!"

"Eh!"

"Take your people and stare at the [-]th Ministry's coalition forces and Beibei people. As long as they show signs of war, notify me immediately."

"understood!"

After giving orders on military affairs, Zhang Zhe gave orders to Xu Jidao and Chen Jiong.

"The guards on the other side of the valley are all on the wall. The beacon towers in the valley need to prepare more charcoal, and the mines are all stopped. If the Beibei people find the valley and go to besiege. You don't care whether the other party is encircling the point to help, Just set off the fireworks to announce the news!"

Xu Jidao cupped his hands and said, "No!"

"Mr. Chen, immediately arrange for people to harvest the alfalfa. The potatoes in the field will not mature until next month. Don't worry about it. Gather people up."

"promise!"

When everyone left as ordered, Zhang Zhe took out a sketch of Yunbei that he had just made not long ago, looking at the place where the two sides were confronting each other, he couldn't help muttering to himself.

"This Mo Bahu is really just here to attack Yunbei? In order to avoid misunderstanding, why didn't someone notify Yunshang County?"

He thought for a long time alone, and finally just smiled.

"Regardless of your real purpose of coming here, today's Yunshang County is not something you can covet with just 3000 people!"

On the second day, when Geng Liang's thousand-man cavalry team had just entered the sand sea, they just ran into a few people who came from the other side of the sand sea in embarrassment.

"Master Geng, the Fourth Department of the Wilderness once again blocked the ancient road, and several merchants escaped to us from the pursuit of the Fourth Department. Our Dazheng has already started a war with the Beibei people!"

Except for Geng Liang who rushed to the other side of the desert, Zhang Zhe, who had received the exact news of the war, called everyone together again.

"On March [-], the Beibei people followed the Chen army and raided the Nanxianghou camp. Although our army was defeated in the field battle, it still defended Maoyang County. The generation had already declared war on Chen because of the feud with the Beibei people. Weiguo is watching from the sidelines."

Zhang Zhe clicked on Mo Bahu's position on the sketch.

"There's no need to doubt it. In addition to attacking Yunbei, this Mo Bahu may have another mission, which is to wipe out our Yunshang County."

Gao Deshu stroked his chin: "This Xingkong Khan is very confident. While fighting with me, Dazheng, he also provokes the Waqiang people."

"Out of the south of Chen State, there is Yimapingchuan. With the combat power of the Beibei people, only 6 cavalry are enough to sweep the north of the Yellow River in Dazheng. Using the Chen people to contain the Dai people, and the Wei people are cowardly, I can only watch from the sidelines. I think this Xingkong Khan can mobilize [-] to [-] people to benefit from the Waqiang people." Xie Lun put forward his profile, and he pointed to the direction behind Mo Bahu with some concern.

"Three thousand cavalry is enough to seize Yunnan at this moment, unless that Xingkong Khan knows our current strength," Zhang Zhe tapped on the map, "As long as the two sides start a war, I will lead the cadres and the Gaodeshu Department Quickly cross the Banjiang River to pick up a bargain!"

(End of this chapter)