Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 291 Generals meeting

On October 20th of the third year of Qingtai, Arsalen, the leader of the Junggar tribe, usurped the throne and proclaimed himself Khan, calling himself Erihebilige Khan!

On October 24, Alslen personally led the 50,000 Junggar regular soldiers and 100,000 servant troops of various ethnic groups who had been summoned in advance to attack in two groups. He also personally led the main force of 30,000 headquarters and 70,000 servant troops to march along the Gobi. The troops marched south to surround Dihua and cut off the connection with northern Xinjiang. Anxi was in danger and the world was shocked!

On October 29th, the mutinous Mongol people in the city opened the city gates. The two thousand defenders in the city were unable to recover. They had no choice but to abandon the city and break out. However, during the breakout process, the current Anxi Governor who patrolled the border to Dihua Yu Wencuo was shot dead by the eagle shooter among the rebels. The morale of the Qi army was in chaos. Only about 600 of the two thousand defenders broke out towards Turpan in the east.
After the fall of Dihua, Alsleng did not stop. He quickly moved eastward and quickly conquered Turpan, Bingwei and other important towns in northern Xinjiang. After capturing Hami, Alsleng bypassed Yumen and headed north to the grassland with a feint.

Alsleng, who was west of Dihua, did not give up. He sent 3,000 troops from his headquarters and 20,000 servants to march westward to join up with the partial divisions heading straight for Ili, preparing to conquer Ili in one fell swoop.

"On November 12, the third year of Qingtai, the Junggar branch and the westward branch surrounded Ili. At this point, all the cities in the northern border of the Anxi Protectorate had fallen, and only Ili remained.

Ili is the capital of Anxi and an important town in the Western Region. It is also the testimony of our Anxi army's hard work for five years. I dare not give up, and the 18,000 defenders of Ili do not dare to give up!
The 12,461 colleagues and 50,000 people in my Duhu Mansion will defend Yili to the death!

On November 12, the third year of Qingtai,

Xu Le, deputy governor of Anxi, wrote a masterpiece. "

In the main hall of the Chinese Army Protectorate, the clerk respectfully placed the final letter, which had been sent out before the encirclement of the two armies of Junggar and sent back to the pass along the southern Xinjiang cities, on the table between the seats of the two governors.

It's better now, I'm in a dead end!

"That's it." Yun Yu gestured on the map with a fan, "If that's the case, then the Western Region is not the primary target."

"Stupid!" Jia Hui squeezed out one word through his teeth. Although he didn't say who was stupid, everyone here knew it.

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It's just that there are too many people on the opposite side. Even if the Qi army has the same number of people and is not afraid of anyone, the number of 25,000 Junggar soldiers and more than 70,000 servants is too many!
"I'm afraid they don't want to attack the city with ants!" A general said worriedly.

"What should we do with food? Ili is not a big place to begin with. To cram so many soldiers into it is a logistical problem."

There was silence in the hall, and the oppressive air even caused the birds around the festival hall to fly far away, daring not to get close.

Everyone still recognizes Xu Le's ability, and with the twelve thousand Qi soldiers, he is invincible in the Western Region even in one-on-one battles, not to mention defense.

The generals started talking one after another.

"How is that possible?! The servant army doesn't have the morale and determination to do so. Even if the Junggar headquarters has troops and horses, it's impossible for them to go forward. How many troops and horses does their headquarters have?"

"Eqirtu?" Yun Yu said uncertainly, stroking his beard.

"Exactly, but fortunately, Yili is a military city with sufficient armaments and artillery gunpowder. They can still survive for a year and a half..."

All the military officers and nobles with military exploits in Beijing were sitting on the seats in several rows on both sides with their heads lowered, waiting for the two governors to speak.

Jia Hui and Yun Yu were not idle either. At this moment, they also opened the map face to face and began to deduce
"According to the intelligence sent by Yumen Pass, Alsileng did not attack Yumen directly, but followed the Gobi Desert to the grassland. I guess there is a Mongolian tribe secretly colluding with the Junggars and preparing to cause chaos on the grassland."

"Oh, there's nothing we can do about it! Now we can only count on the Southern Xinjiang line to be able to send some things."

"Well, I'd rather he didn't Xu Le once." Jia Hui sighed, "That's all, they have been surrounded anyway, and it's too late to say anything now. I hope Xu Le and Yili can hold on until the court supports them."

Everyone in the hall nodded.

Yun Yu, whose hair and beard were all white, nodded in agreement: "It's really stupid. There is no need to defend Yili at this time. We should lead the troops to break out to protect southern Xinjiang, protect the elites of Anxi, and prevent them from following you to lead troops in." The route to the plateau is to invade the plateau.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, the two governors did not show any angry expressions, but their expressions were frighteningly calm.

In fact, there are not many routes to choose from when attacking from the Western Region. As long as those nodes are well defended, it is actually very difficult to attack from the Western Region.

But then again, when Xu Le took office, he patted his chest and promised to live and die with Yili. He did what he said. If he didn't do this, it wouldn't be Xu Le. "

Jia Hui nodded and shook his head: "It's most likely yes, but until the people on the grassland come back with information, everything is possible."

But the grassland is different. As long as the Great Wall is, there are as many places where the grassland can be invaded. It's just a matter of difficulty.

Therefore, the importance of the Western Regions is far less than that of the grasslands.

And the most important thing is that compared to the Daqi people who speak Chinese and have very similar looks, the Junggar people who speak Mongol and have similar looks are more trusted by a considerable number of Mongol people, and there will always be trouble. People who didn't know the situation followed Junggar to make trouble. If the entire grassland moves south in a big way, then the entire Western Region will not be lost.

"Oh, just like this, Xu Le and the more than 60,000 soldiers and civilians are suffering." Jia Hui sighed softly. He knew that there must be choices for this war, but when he and Yun Yu made a decision on the spot, they unanimously chose to liberate the Western Regions. In the second place, I still feel guilty for the people who were sacrificed.

Especially since he has lived with these people for several years.
"Don't be too anxious about things that you can't help. You were able to build Yili City under your watch. You also know how high its defense capabilities are. As long as Xu Le doesn't act stupid, Yili can still survive even without external supplies. Many years.

And don’t we still retain the southern Xinjiang line? Although there are not many things transported and the losses are large, after all, we can still transport some things, and we will not have to increase the number of people at all, and "

Yun Yu leaned towards Jia Hui: "The worst we can do is still have the plateau!"

"Plateau? It's hard for people to walk on the plateau road." Jia Hui scratched the back of his head, "But what you said reminded me that it's time for Asir to move." Asir, a former wealthy man After surrendering Jia Hui to lead the way, Daru Huachi in the uninhabited land of Aksai Chin also obtained the fiefdom of Linzhi. Since then, he has been stationed in Lhasa as one of Da Qi's top military supervisors on the plateau. .

It can be said that except for the commander-in-chief of Wuszang, who is definitely a Han, the only one on the plateau who speaks with a knife is him, the commander-in-chief of Lhasa.

Jia Hui’s family adds several boxes of jewelry and corals from time to time, almost all of which are gifts from Asir.

It is still necessary to let him lead troops down to the plateau to increase the number of troops in southern Xinjiang and prevent Junggar from going to the plateau.

After all, the Junggar people believe in the Yellow Sect, and the plateau happens to be rich in great lamas, and those great lamas are still very attractive to them. Moreover, if they can obtain the plateau and obtain the title of great lama, it will also greatly improve Alsleng's legitimacy.
After deciding on the defense strategy for southern Xinjiang and the plateau, the two set their sights on the grassland again.

"I can be sure that the Tuxie Tubu will never mess with Alsleng, and will even fight with Alsleng desperately."

"Why?" Yun Yu was a little curious.

"Ah, I found this out from the file as well." Jia Hui changed his sitting position and leaned towards Yun Yu, "Did you know that Alsileng was once the son-in-law of the Tuxie Tubu?"

"What? Is there such a thing? Come on, come on, come on, tell me carefully!" Yun Yu looked surprised and quickly picked up the tea cup and took a sip to prepare for the gossip.
There was also a commotion in the festival hall. The generals and nobles who had been discussing with each other just now but had been listening to all directions turned their heads to face Jia Hui, their faces full of gossip.
"Ahem." Jia Hui cleared his cough and did not start talking immediately. However, several sensible generals quickly stood up and walked over to Jia Hui's table. They snatched the kettle from the clerk's hand and looked at him with eager expressions. He served more tea to Jia Hui, and then stood by his side.
"Yes." Jia Hui took a sip of tea to moisten his throat before speaking: "Actually, it's not a complicated matter. I saw it when I was looking through the files some time ago."

At that time, Alsleng's fourth uncle launched a coup and usurped Alsleng's father's position as Hutaiji. The old Hutaiji didn't know why, but the originally healthy man suddenly died.

According to the official statement of his fourth uncle, he drank day and night after being usurped and placed under house arrest, and finally died of depression. But in the eyes of the people below, the death of Lao Huitaiji was unclear, so people's hearts were floating.

As a last resort, his fourth uncle, who had planned to kill the nephews born to his eldest brother one by one, had no choice but to give up the idea and chose exile as the next best option.

The concubines chose to be exiled to the Turks, and the legitimate children also wanted to retain some dignity, so the three brothers and sisters Alsileng, who was twelve years old, Mandu Latu, who was nine years old, and Arongtana, who was two years old, were exiled. Exiled to the grasslands to the east.

It can be regarded as allowing them to return to their ancestral land.

The three brothers and sisters began their four-year wandering career.

After experiencing being chased by wolves, being driven out by hostile tribes, being matched by wits and courage by human traffickers, and racking their brains for survival.
Finally, after four years of wandering in Alslen, when he was sixteen years old, they came to Tuxie Tubu after many twists and turns.

Although the Tuxie Tubu didn't have a good impression of Junggar, they would not embarrass their little cubs, so the three brothers and sisters finally found a place where they could stay temporarily and grow up in peace.
There, Alslen also met the person who influenced his life.
A girl who was curious about their identity as a Junggar tribe came over to see the strange girl.
"Think about it, a little girl who has just begun to have an affair, when she yearns for love the most, grows up alone with her younger brothers and sisters. Her temperament and eyes are far beyond those of her sixteen-year-old peers, and her face even has a tinge on her face. A melancholy and handsome young man who was troubled by life suddenly appeared in front of him, with that lethal power."

"Ah? So, Alsleng was still a weakling back then?" Niu Zhao exclaimed in surprise.

"How strange!" Shui Che looked at Niu Zhao with an expression that said, "How strange are you?", "It's not unusual to borrow the help of your father-in-law's family to restore the country. If nothing else, when Taikang lost the country, wasn't it? His great-nephew Shaokang acquired a land ten miles away from his father-in-law's family and a crowd of five hundred people, so he had some capital to start the restoration of the country? "

"So, Alsileng married this Tuxie Tu's Beji and got the capital to start a business?" a military general asked.

"Yes, this girl is none other than Tuxie Tuhuntaiji's biological daughter at that time. After getting married, Alsileng finally had a family business that allowed his younger brothers and sisters to grow up in peace, and with this With Dian's family background and his father's die-hard followers from the Junggar headquarters, he succeeded in overthrowing his fourth uncle six years later and became the Huitaiji of Junggar."

Speaking of this, Jia Hui also had some admiration for Alsileng on his face.

At the very least, he didn't have the courage to marry an ugly girl with a scandalous reputation that shocked the entire Khalkha and parts of southern Monan in order to regain his family fortune.
But there is no need to tell this group of people. After all, there is also a group of people here who started out like this.

"And just when Alsileng recaptured Junggar and was about to start drastic reforms, the Tuxie Tubu jumped out and acted like a monster."

He said that this place was not doing well and that place was not doing well, and then he said that if I hadn't sent troops to help you take back the tribe, you would still be herding sheep on my territory!

Even in the matter of heirs, his father-in-law wanted to get involved and stipulated that Alslen was not allowed to touch other women until his daughter gave birth to a boy.
Finally, when his father-in-law intervened and wanted to remove the position of prime minister of the Junggar tribe and replace it with someone from the Tuxie Tu tribe, Alslen could no longer bear it. He took out his machete and went home and gave it to his wife and father-in-law. The tribesmen were killed, and it was announced that the Tuxie Tube had been interfering in the internal affairs of Junggar. Since then, they had been fighting to the death with the Tuxie Tube, and in the same year they overthrew the Oziltu-Tuxietu coalition forces.
To be precise, it was just Tuxietu's army. Oqiltu betrayed Tuxietu and stabbed Tuxietu in the face of the battle. Otherwise, Tuxietu would not have been defeated so miserably. Later, Saiyinnuoyan's people were so easily turned into Khar. Leader of Kagome
"Now the leader of Tuxietu is the brother of that poor woman, and it happened that another of their brothers also died in the war with the Junggar tribe. This makes him want to eat their flesh and sleep on their skin. "

"So, the pressure on the grassland will be much easier?" Youxungui asked.

"How is it possible? The Dzungars have strong soldiers and horses and many servants. His Tuxie Tubu has been ruined in the past two years. What can he do to stop them?" the nobleman next to him retorted.

In recent years, the imperial court has secretly conducted research on these tribes in the south and north of the desert. Naturally, large tribes like Tuxietu are the focus of attention.

"They are just like bastards now. They seem to occupy a lot of territory, but in fact, they still haven't recovered from the stabbing stabbed by Eqiltu who turned against them in battle!" said a general who was particularly familiar with Mobei affairs.

"Cough cough!"

Seeing that everyone was about to continue the heated discussion, Jia Hui coughed twice and interrupted their thoughts.

"The battle against the Dzungars is about to begin. Considering that everyone is good at different things, and this time I am afraid that the fight will last for several years like the one against Timur, so the Governor's Office will not name anyone.

In this way, those who want to go can just hand in a note, and the children of each family who want to pursue military merit can also send it to the auxiliary barracks. Mr. Yun and I still need to go to the palace, so we won't stay here. Let's adjourn the meeting! "

"Wei, I'll take my leave!"

Everyone stood up one after another, paid military salutes to the two governors, and left the festival hall in an orderly manner.
Tsk, our generals are still qualified. Unlike those civil servants, our generals never fight during meetings!
(End of this chapter)