Chapter 302: Returning to Thousand Households of Virtue
Xiaohetao, the small rivertao with red fire, is the place where Chuo Ke Tutai auspicious day and night thoughts rest.
From the first day when he led his army across the river, Chuoktu Taiji observed this land with great joy. He was delighted with the long-deserted mountain plateaus; he also liked the Gobi Desert surrounded by rivers.
Lazun's decision to leave without a fight greatly boosted Chuoktu Taiji's self-confidence. The enemy's troops surrendered in defiance of the wind. What kind of powerful prestige does this mean?
He has even sent two groups of messengers to follow Razun all the way south, telling him not to run away anymore, but to come back and surrender. As long as he converts to the Red Sect and is loyal to Lin Dan Khan, he can still maintain his transcendent status as a living Buddha...
Who doesn’t like a mascot that runs away when something happens?
The other route went to convey an order to the son who stayed behind in Wulan Mountain to send a team to the outside of Xuanfu and invite Lin Dan Khan to Qinghai. With the rich Qinghai, they could establish a new dynasty on the plateau that would rule all Mongolia.
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However, Chuoktu Taiji's excitement did not last long, because he never dreamed that the first battle the army entered Xiaohetao would be against the Ming army.
He thought that the enemy would be Xiao Lazun from the Huo Luochi family, but Xiao Lazun ran away; he thought that the enemy would be the Marshal's Mansion in Qinghai, but he didn't see anyone from the Marshal's Mansion in Xiaohetao. On the contrary, he had no presence here.
The Ming army blocked his way.
The person who stopped him was Bao Hu, the deputy Qianhu of Guide Guarding Qianhu.
Guide is a very common place name. There is Guide Prefecture in Henan, Guide Fort in Yulin, Shaanxi, and Guide Guards House for Thousand Households on the south bank of the Yellow River in the south of Xining.
This Thousand Households is located south of Xining, on the southern bank of the Yellow River. There are two rivers running eighty miles from north to south between the mountains. If the narrow strip of land around the valley is included in Qinghai, it is likely to be the most fertile in the entire Qinghai.
Land.
However, this Thousand Households belongs to the Shaanxi Hezhou Guard, and the natives participate in politics. There is an acropolis and 33 native forts. The sense of existence is extremely low. There are only 148 officers and soldiers on the payroll, including the natives who are not on the payroll.
The number of soldiers is less than a thousand.
Bao Hu hadn't had a good night's sleep for a long time. Liu Chengzong's visit to Xining happened to coincide with the troubled times of Guide Qianhu Office. When Qianhu fell ill and died in office, the important task was entrusted to him.
Hezhou Wei asked him to cut off the connection between the Liu pirates who fled into the sea and the pirates.
Bao Hu is also a native official. The ancestors of the generals here are all surrendered generals of the Yuan Dynasty. Due to geographical restrictions, Guide is separated from Xining by the mountains of the Yellow River, and Hezhou Wei is blocked by mountains. There has never been a deep connection with the imperial court.
The pirates were stopped by the geographical isolation and the connection with the fortress alone. From time to time the pirates were strong, and some tiba were also recruited in the name of Guidefan.
He didn't understand why he had to take extra precautions since it was an official position granted by the emperor.
However, since an order is an order, it must be carried out. Anyway, Liu Shishi has no intention of crossing the river from Guide, and Xiao Lazun seems to have no intention of joining forces with Liu Shishi. Therefore, although they cannot sleep well day and night, people are still alive after all.
Even when Chuoktu Taiji launched a massive attack on Qinghai, Bao Hu didn't have much to worry about. After all, it was a war between Chuoktu Taiji and Huo Luochi.
He never expected that Xiao Lazun had escaped and sent people to escort all the family members from his territory to Xining. Suddenly looking back, Bao Hu found that he was being roasted on the fire.
Lazun can leave, but the 148 flag troops who guard Qianhu Station in Guide have no way to go.
They do not rely on royal salaries to live in this place, but rely on the vast land rented around them to become a paradise.
Without these lands, they would not be able to support themselves anywhere.
Early on the morning of June 24th, an order came from the other side of the Yellow River in the north from Liu Chengzu, the commander of Xining Guards, asking him to withdraw the ferry defenses and send 700 sergeants of the Zhenhai Battalion to cross the river as support to resist Chuoktu Taiji.
Bao Hu kept the Hezhou Guard's instructions in mind and did not withdraw his defense. He sternly refused the entry of Zhenhai Battalion soldiers.
But this was only a verbal rejection, because in the evening of the same day, Hukou Fort in the south was attacked, and more than a hundred Khalkha horse soldiers rushed into the valley and headed north, so Bao Hu transferred two artillery pieces from the northern ferry and buried them at the ferry.
A large number of mines reduced the ferry defenders to two people.
At this critical moment, he could no longer tell whether Xining Guard Commander Liu Chengzu was providing support in good faith or taking the opportunity to seize the land that their ancestors had relied on for generations.
Fortunately, the officers and soldiers of the Zhenhai Camp on the other side of the river are really the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. It's just that they eat from the Marshal's Mansion and use the Marshal's Mansion, so they just listen to the Marshal's Mansion.
However, when it came to crossing the border, they were still very obedient. If the friendly forces were not allowed to enter, they really did not cross the border. They just built simple defenses at the ferry on the other side of the river, and once again told Bao Hu that they wanted to enter for support.<
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Bao Hu not only laid mines at the northern ferry, but also laid a large number of mines in the narrow section of Mayu Gorge in the south.
As a battleground for military strategists during the Wanli period, the Guide Shouyu Qianhu Station retains the most advanced armaments of the Ming army, as well as a large amount of gunpowder raw materials retained over the years.
Bao Hu ordered people to dismantle the no longer reliable steel wheel on the mine. He had no time to make a new steel wheel, so he could only use the ancient fuse structure and left behind soldiers to ignite the mine.
In the early morning of June 25th, the Khalkha cavalry galloped in from the southern section of the river valley after a night's sleep. The cavalrymen were wearing leather jackets or leather armor inlaid with iron bars, carrying long spears and sabers on their waists and hips.
Line up and gallop through the Mayo Gorge.
Not everyone wears armor, and not everyone wears a helmet.
Some cavalry wear iron helmets, bowls and Mongolian-style iron round caps.
There are also people who do not have helmets and only wear leather hats. These people will hold a wicker shield thirty inches wide. The middle of the shield is covered with a large or small round iron, and iron bars with various decorations are nailed around it for reinforcement.
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Their leader wore heavy armor that looked like separate iron plates, and had a rolled-up flag that would only be unfurled when supervising battles.
When the horse team passed by, every inch of the valley was shaking.
The Qianhushuo Dobanner Army, who had not experienced combat for a long time, was hiding in a pit with only half of his head exposed. He watched the ground around him tremble. A large number of enemy cavalry were trampling past him more than ten steps away, making him tremble uncontrollably.
Wow, no matter how hard I gritted my teeth and clenched my fists, I couldn’t stop trembling.
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He blew the huozhezi three times in a row but failed to do it. The more he blew, the more anxious he became, and the more anxious he became, the less able he was to blow.
So Bao Hu, who was leading his army in ambush on the flank, saw that the enemy had passed through the ambush zone, so he simply set off the artillery on the hillside. All of a sudden, four artillery pieces and dozens of muskets were running up and down the hillside and on both sides of the canyon, together with two Baihus.
The car launched a volley, and the sound of killing filled the air with smoke, which blocked the forward momentum of the Khalkha cavalry.
Since the city of Guide Qianhu was built in the early Ming Dynasty, there have always been many artillery pieces. However, as the years went by, many of the cannons were no longer usable. New cannons were needed, and the Hezhou Guard did not have time to transfer them to this small Qianhu place.
The Hezhou Guard was a guard station with one cow and one cow in the Ming Dynasty. The other guards had 5,600 banner troops, and the Hezhou Guard had 9,888 banner troops. At most, it had eight thousand-household stations under its jurisdiction.
, there are nine places with thousands of households, and there is no way to take care of the place of return.
The Guide Institute did not have an arms bureau. Over time, some of the artillery pieces that could no longer be fired were taken home by local officials and soldiers and used as iron materials, swords, or armor pieces. Today, only these four artillery pieces are left.
An ancestor.
The youngest of the four was cast in the thirteenth year of Wanli. It is a 400-pound French gun. He is the junior among the four cannons and is the same age as Bao Hu's grandfather. The oldest one was cast in the thirteenth year of Hongwu. It is a bronze gun.
Cast a 200-pound general cannon.
People are superstitious about things from the time of Emperor Taizu, and firmly believe that this ancestor can still use them. As long as they use less ammunition, they can indeed still be used.
Originally, there was an ancestor who was made of copper of the same age, but in the 44th year of Wanli there was a drought in Xining, so the brothers of Qianhusuo burned that ancestor, made some copper coins, and ate them in exchange for money.<
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As the saying goes, ginger is still hotter when old. A well-maintained Huanshou sword from the Han Dynasty can still kill people, let alone an old cannon from the Hongwu Year.
Forty or fifty paces away, half-loaded ammunition still hit the faces of the Khalkha cavalry. The heavily armored general who was suddenly attacked was knocked to the ground by his horse. He quickly got up and ran back, with arrows clanking on his body.
It will ring immediately.
Even though the cannon in Bao Hu's hand is a veteran, the heavy armor on this Khalkha general is also worthy of his reputation.
This thing is obviously an old treasure passed down from ancestors. It must be older than Dayan Khan, because one of the reasons why the Ming army changed from heavy cavalry to medium or even light cavalry was that they could not catch up with the Mongolian cavalry.
There are many reasons why the Mongolian cavalry changed from heavy armor to light armor. One of them is that the number of enemy field firearms has greatly increased, so that heavy armor can no longer completely dominate the battlefield.
At the same time, advances in blowing technology allow Mongolian craftsmen to create lighter armor pieces that also have good protection.
The reduction of available resources is indeed one aspect.
However, heavy armor does have its advantages. When the tribesmen saw their hundreds of generals fell from their horses, they swarmed in with hooks and sickles, and in a blink of an eye, three hooks were hung on the armor of the hundreds of generals.
No one cares whether General Bai wants to run or not. As long as the hook is hooked, he will run back without even listening to his shouts.
For Mongolian men, hooks, sickles, and spears are weapons with entrepreneurial attributes.
Why did the Khalkha Mongols march into Qinghai? Isn't it just that they traveled thousands of miles just to seek wealth?
Leaving aside Chok Rabbit Taiji's ambition to build a great cause for the ages, for ordinary herdsmen, as long as they hook this heavy thing back, no matter whether they win the battle or not, they will definitely win.
Bao Hu, who was firing the cannon on the hilltop, was dumbfounded. As soon as the smoke from the cannon cleared, he urged his men to reload quickly for fear of being attacked by the enemy, but when he looked closely, he saw that no one was fighting with them. p>
I saw a group of Mongolian soldiers, each using hooks and sickles to hang their comrades, leading the friendly horses to run back. They didn't care whether they were alive or dead, and whether they wanted to go back or not. As long as they were hooked, they couldn't run away. But Mongolians are not the only entrepreneurs in this battle.
Bao Hu looked at the Mongolian cavalry with splitting eyes, shouted at the top of his lungs, and half of his body was exposed on the top of the mountain: "Don't let them take away the corpse!"
At one time, more than 20 flag troops rushed out from the front, chasing after dozens of steps with swords and axes, and finally saw the huge shaking fire in Mayu Gorge.
A series of landmines laid beside the road were ignited by the Turkish flag army. The mines from front to back burst out with huge flames and roared through the ground, and the gravel cracked and sputtered in all directions.
If you are close, you will not necessarily die, and if you are far away, you will not necessarily live. Basically, it depends on the horoscope. If your destiny is hard enough, you will not die even if you lose a battle; if your destiny is soft, you will not be able to survive even if you win a battle.
Hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder were buried underground, and the explosion was astonishing, but the lethality was not that terrible. More Mongolian soldiers were stunned than killed, and more survived unscathed than were transported.
The hook-and-scythe lancers who risked their lives to start a business passed through numerous obstacles and escaped from the battlefield with their trophies; the Guideshu native flag soldiers who jumped out of the fortifications also got the head they wanted as they wished.
At least in this battle, some of the soldiers on both sides found their own happiness.
But Bao Hu was not happy. After checking the equipment of the captives and corpses, the deputy Qianhu of the guide station frowned. The equipment level of this group of Khalkha cavalry was more than a thousand years ahead of Xiao Lazun's troops. p>
Mine ambush can only be used once. Although the land of Guidesuo is long and narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are many forts in the river valley, he does not have enough troops to defend all the key points. As long as one line of defense is breached, there will be no need for subsequent battles. It happened that at this time, the banner army sent to Hezhou Guard for help returned after a long journey, bringing news that he should hold on to the fortress.
Bao Hu was so angry that his teeth were itching. Isn't this nonsense? Guide is his hometown. If he doesn't defend it, who will defend it? "Where are the reinforcements I want?"
The Tu Banner Army shook his head, with fear of the commander in his eyes: "The commander said that Guyuan had mobilized the Hezhou Guard's flag army, and because La Zun was moving south, the Hezhou Guard needed to guard against Tumen Pass and Jishi Pass.
If there is chaos in Fanmu, we can only send two hundred households to come to our aid."
Bao Hu suddenly felt relieved and clapped his hands and said: "It's enough for two hundred households. My strength has doubled. Where are the people?"
The native flag soldiers lowered their heads and did not dare to speak. They turned back and pointed at the two riders behind them and said: "Thousands of households, that's two hundred households."
Bao Hu was stunned for a moment, then looked at the local flag army, and then at the two men in the distance who had just dismounted and did not dare to come over. They were wearing armor. The flag on the helmet gun was indeed Baihu.
He pointed at the two people and asked the Tuqijun: "Are those two fucking sheep carriers?"
After receiving a positive response from his subordinates, Bao Hu looked at the two hundred households, his face turned red, and his blood pressure exceeded his height in the blink of an eye. In a trance, there seemed to be a suona playing in his ears, and there was an illusion in front of his eyes that a professional team was singing and dancing to carry him away. After a while, General Bao finally took a breath and became furious. He raised his arms and cursed: "Get out! What I want is a flag army of two hundred households, not a hundred households carrying sheep! Where are the soldiers!"<
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"General, soldiers, there were indeed 200 banner troops when we went out. But when they passed Changning Horse Station, they heard that there were tens of thousands of Tatars here, so they crossed the Yellow River and ran to Xiningwei." The native banner troops lowered their heads and said.
: "The Qinghai Marshal's Mansion is recruiting people for reclamation... everyone in Lintao and Gongchang knows about it."
The moment the Tuqijun finished saying this, a series of Northwest curse words with extremely strong sheep content came to his ears. Finally, he heard Bao Hu looking up at the sky and sighing faintly: "Where is this for me?"
Isolate the Liu pirates from the pirates. It’s clear that I want the Liu pirates and the pirates to isolate me...Open the ferry!"
"Ah?"
"I said open the ferry and let the Xining Guard reinforcements come over. If they want to come and fight, just fight. I don't care, go home." Bao Hu waved his arms randomly, as if he wanted to spend all his money on the non-existent enemy in the air.
