The speed with which Liu Chengzong captured Bajiao City was beyond the imagination of others, not even his father and brother.
Liu Chengzu, who had just sorted out the second batch of supplies in Xining, saw the news of the city's destruction coming from Li Wanqing. His first reaction was not to cheer, but to directly ask his subordinates to place Li Wanqing under house arrest.
Liu Chengzu knew what Bajiao City was like. Not only was that city easier to defend and harder to attack than Zhenyuan City, it was at least equally matched.
When they captured Zhenyuan, there were only a few hundred defenders in Zhenyuan County, and the force was not enough for one person to stand behind each battlement. With ants on all sides, it was not surprising that the city was under attack in one day.
But there were 10,000 defenders in Bajiao City, and Liu Chengzong's siege army was less than 10,000. The official siege of the city began on September 3rd, and Li Wanqing went to Xining on September 3rd to say that the city was broken.
Even if Li Wanqing ran fast, it would take at least six days for the city to be broken on the ninth day of September. How could Liu Chengzu believe it? He really thought that the city was for fun, and it was faster than he could raise gunpowder.
If a dozen cannons could defeat the city in six days, Hou Jin should have reached Xining by now.
He felt that Li Wanqing might have surrendered to Chuck Rabbit, which might cause his brother's defeat. This was a tactic used by the enemy to lure the enemy out by releasing false news.
Although the fact that the second brother was defeated by Chuck Rabbit is quite absurd, it is far less strange than the fall of the city in six days.
For this reason, Liu Chengzu also detained Li Wanqing for two days, not listening to a word he said. While sending his cronies south to find out the news, he actively prepared for war to avenge his brother.
It was not until two days later that Bao Hu, deputy Qianhu of Guide Qianhu Station, sent someone on flying horse to report that the 7,000 Khalkha captives and wounded soldiers escorted by the Generalissimo had entered Guide territory. He asked Liu Chengzu where to send them, and
It was specified that Chieftain Chen Shiwen should quickly gather five hundred households and head to Bajiao City, and he would go to Nanshan Fort to see the commander.
Liu Chengzu was dumbfounded: "Really won?"
This is two unexpected things happening one after another. The first thing is unbelievable that Liu Chengzong won so quickly, and the second thing is this Bao Hu.
Liu Chengzu remembered clearly that Bao Hu was as afraid of Xining as he was of a tiger.
Earlier, he didn't dare to enter Xining. He kept pretending to be an ostrich in Guide. He even laid landmines at the ferry during the war with Khalkha, hoping to send Liu Chengzu to heaven. Why do you think so now? p>
In fact, for no other reason, Bao Hu met Liu Chengzong.
In the past few months when Chuoke Rabbit Taiji invaded Qinghai, the mentality of Bao Hu and the local guards at Guide Suo had undergone tremendous changes.
It all starts with the bodies they snatched from the entrepreneurs in Khalkha.
After the battle, Bao Hu decided to lead Liu Chengzu against Chuo Ketu. They got into Guide City and could not come out. They only sent someone to send the head to Hezhou Guard, and the body was left in Qianhu Yamen to wait for official inspection. Who knows
Once the head is sent, there will be no follow-up messages.
It happened that Liu Chengzu's soldiers were fighting a tug-of-war with Khalkha around the fortress in the river valley. Bao Hu also tried his best to prevent his men from running around, so he waited for a long time before sending someone to Hezhou to inquire. His body was left in Qianhu Station for inspection.
Damn it.
Only when the Banner Army passed by did they find out that the imperial court had already accepted the eighteen heads, but the road was blocked and neither the news nor the reward money were sent here. Only when the Wei Yamen saw this did they buckle the ropes and hand out twelve taels of silver.
Bao Hu was thinking about it in Guide Yamen and summoned the local officials to gather together. A group of Mongolian guards frowned and transformed into great mathematicians, banging their abacus. Looking at the results, they looked at each other.
Doubt life.
The head of a Tatar thief is worth silver... six cents, six cents, six millimeters, six millimeters, six millimeters, six millimeters, seven cents?
Guidesuo has been under the rule of Lazun for a long time and does not know much about the affairs of the country. Everyone has a soul torture in his heart: Has the price of goods in the imperial court fallen like this?
We don’t know what the hell the algorithm is for the twelve taels of silver reward for eighteen heads, this thing can’t be eliminated!
Anyway, they know very well that as long as the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion is still here, this road will probably never be opened in the future.
Xining is the entire territory of an enemy country, and all the messages sent by the court have been unable to be read. The officials sent entered the Hehuang Valley and were only three hundred miles away from becoming a missing person.
There are even some people, such as the loyal and courageous Zhou Tongzhi, who were ordered by the court to lurk beside Liu Thief. Since leaving Xining City that year, no one has got the exact information about his whereabouts. It cannot be asked. Xining has all agreed.
, if you ask, just say that you are studying naval engineering in Qinghai Lake.
Isn't this fart? We have a navy in Qinghai Lake. Where are we going to sail the ship? We can't even make up lies to deceive children. We might as well just say we're going to fight a naval battle with the Mongolian Empire in the vast sea.
I heard that even Zhou Tongzhi’s family members in Baoding Prefecture have become missing persons.
Hundreds of households stretched out their four fingers and said mysteriously: "The fourth-grade life officer of the imperial court is gone as soon as he says it is gone. Until now, no one is alive or dead, and no corpses are seen. It's terrible."
It is really terrible for Bao Hu to be born in this place.
But the more terrifying thing was yet to come. On that day, Li Wanqing, a member of the Xining Guards, galloped across Guidesuo and sent someone to tell them that Shuaiye had won a great victory. Chuoktu Taiji's entire army had been wiped out, and he wanted local officials from Guidesuo to arrive.
See you in the south.
The power of the victory was such that tens of thousands of Khalkha's Chuok Rabbits were suppressed in Bajiao City and were destroyed. Bao Hu felt that although his city wall was quite strong, it might not be able to withstand Liu Chengzong.
I didn't dare to block him, and there was no place to run. I had no choice but to call the local military attachés, lead nine cows and nine sheep to work for the army, and then immersed ourselves in walking south.
A total of six Tuliu officials went there, and people were very worried. They all looked like they were ready to die heroically, thinking that most of their people would be dead during this trip south.
The best and best outcome is probably just like what Lazun looked like when he was still in Xiaohetao.
But they heard that Liu Chengzong was not a ruthless person, and his attitude of beating the bones and sucking out the marrow of the people was almost like that of Emperor Chongzhen.
In the mood of mourning themselves, they met Liu Chengzong, who looked very powerful but did not want to eat people. He just laughed when he saw them, asked them their names and official positions, and even moved stools for them. It was very scary.
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It's not that Liu Chengzong was scary when he moved the stool, but the big gun was the key. The stool was unloaded from under the six-gun garrison gun. Two gun racks were combined into one stool, which I dare not say hurts my butt a bit.
Unexpectedly, Liu Chengzong was very happy to see them. He first praised them for their bravery in resisting the attack of Chuck Rabbit, and then commended them for their meritorious service in defending the city.
The six people from a hundred households to a thousand households were treated equally according to their official rank, regardless of local status. Those who deserved sheep were rewarded with sheep, and those who deserved cattle were rewarded with cattle.
After asking about his merits in fighting the Chuok Rabbit and his head, Liu Chengzong also rewarded 180 taels of silver to Guidesuo, which made the Tuliu guard burst into tears... To be honest, this money is not much, and it is no more than the imperial court.
The amount given was fifteen times more, but it could still divide all of it!
The silver reward was just Liu Chengzong's sympathy, and he said some personal words about himself being an officer and a soldier in the past. His real bribery to the guards of Guide Qianhu was to get promoted.
Bao Hu was promoted to the rank of Chief Qianhu, and the remaining five people were all promoted to Deputy Qianhu of Guide Office, and they were asked to go to Xining City with their letters of appointment to get their seals.
Facing the letter of appointment sent by the guard, Bao Hu and others looked at me and I looked at you. Everyone knew that this thing should not and could not be accepted, but in the end they were still no match for a helpless sigh, and could only react with complicated emotions.
Continue.
It is easy to receive a letter of appointment, but the difficult thing is the etiquette of expressing gratitude.
With their status as military officers of the Ming Dynasty, and with Liu Chengzong’s unclear status, how should they express their gratitude?
In the end, everyone really didn’t know what to do, so they all looked at Bao Hu. Faced with so many doubtful looks, Bao Hu was helpless.
His ancestors had received professional training from the Ming Dynasty court for generations. If he failed in the examination, he would not be able to inherit the chieftainship. The process of expressing gratitude to the emperor was well understood, but he had not received the etiquette training to express gratitude to the chieftain.
What's more, this Liu Chengzong doesn't look like a toast from head to toe!
Finally, Bao Hu thought about the performance of the Hezhou Guards in this war. In this three-acre area, the Marshal's Mansion was much more reliable than the imperial court. Then he looked at the large guns around him that were taller than a man. He felt reassured.
, forget it, just take the lead, no shame, just kowtow a few times.
Immediately leading the five local military attachés, they had to bow three times and kowtow: "We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Marshal for his grace and serve forever..."
"Okay, we are all military attachés, don't knock here and there. After so many years, there is no difference between Han and Chinese. The court can't help here. Follow me in a down-to-earth manner and I won't treat you badly." p>
This was just an empty talk, but Liu Chengzong proved that it was possible. He asked Bao Hu to send a letter to Chen Shiwen, saying that it was the first chieftain who surrendered to him, and he would fulfill his promise of not treating him unfairly.
After the war, Liu Chengzong left the finishing work of Huangnan Xiaohetao to his eldest brother and led the army to the west. There is also Arslan under the Wulan Mountain in the west. Only by clearing that up can the full success be considered.
However, the following battle was nothing to Liu Chengzong. The 40,000-strong army in Khalkha was wiped out, leaving only the 10,000 soldiers stationed in Ulan Mountain in Arslan. No matter what, they could not make any waves.<
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Compared with the upcoming war, Liu Chengzong was more concerned about the future development of Qinghai.
The annihilation of Chuoke Rabbit further increased the financial resources of the Marshal's Mansion. The precious metals, weapons, armor, horses and livestock seized alone were worth nearly 580,000 taels.
But after calculation, this number is very fictitious. No one has ever been able to calculate the enemy's captured loot so clearly.
There is no other reason that Liu Chengzong can calculate clearly. Most of the seized materials were made by them.
At least 70% of all kinds of decorations, luxury goods, living utensils, gold and silver jewelry, weapons and armors are marked with the logos of the Marshal's Mansion's Arms Bureau, Hundreds of Industries Bureau, and Weaving Bureau.
Even the noodles used as military rations by Chuok Rabbit Taiji are produced in Juerwan.
They were all the things that Juerwan sold to the Mongolian tribe in Qinghai and were snatched away by Chuo Ke Rabbit. These things were circulated among the Mongolian tribes and eventually returned to Liu Chengzong's hands after Chuo Ke Rabbit was defeated.
This made Liu Chengzong realize an issue that he had not considered before. The greatest impact of this war on Qinghai was probably not that the Marshal's Mansion established its prestige in the surrounding areas.
But he single-handedly established the Juerwan Market, which was making huge profits every day, but it was destroyed from the source.
His market is still there, but his customers are gone.
The customers of Juerwan Market have never been ordinary Mongolian people, but large-scale trading caravans led by Mongolian nobles. Today, there are many Mongolian tribesmen in Qinghai, even more than before, but there are no Mongolian nobles left.
Several.
In the future, the trading partners will no longer be the leaders of the Mongolian tribe, but the merchants from the surrounding counties.
There will be a business center connecting Xining City to Haixi, Haibei and other counties, and radiating further south.
Liu Chengzong led his army towards Nanshan Fort at a very fast speed, but could not keep up with Arslan's escape speed.
The news of Chuoktu's defeat and death spread, which greatly shocked the Mongolian army at the foot of the Ulan Mountains. Arslan immediately decided to flee back to the border of Gansu, but he, a member of the Ulan tribe, did not listen to him.<
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Some of them are Khalkha troops, but more are women and children from Monan. They have just lived a good life for two days, and no one wants to leave Wulan Mountain.
Because October is approaching and winter is coming.
They did not participate in the attack on Tumedguru Taiji, and their daily necessities could not support them until next spring outside Gansu.
Under internal and external pressure, the Ulan tribe collapsed. Arslan led two thousand-man teams loyal to him, robbed a lot of livestock and supplies, and fled to the border of Gansu.
The more than 16,000 tribesmen who stayed in Wulan Mountain elected several highly respected leaders and surrendered to Zhong Hu of Nanshan Fort.
Zhong Hu was frightened at the time. He had 1,200 men under his command, so how could he dare to accept the surrender of 16,000 men?
Liu Guoneng, the magistrate of Haixi County, cannot be the master... The entire Haixi County has only more than 4,000 people, which is hardly self-sufficient. Even if these 16,000 people eat all the livestock, they will not be able to survive the New Year.
As long as people are put in from Nanshan Fort, Haixi County will be cannibalistic before the Lantern Festival next year.
For the surrendered Mongolian leaders, things have developed in a direction they do not want to see. There are not many choices left for them. They can either abandon the old, weak, women and children like Arslan's choice; or they can only start a war.
Field.
Almost all the Mongolian leaders who fled from Monan had this experience: in the autumn, their tribe encountered a food crisis, and there were no tribes around to provide help. They could only ask for money and grain from the Ming Dynasty border guards, and submit a petition to the generals. p>
Sometimes, the Ming Dynasty would open border markets and let them exchange furs and horses for food at a high price, or directly provide food and grass assistance in exchange for military assistance.
But more often than not, the imperial court's border defense cannot support them.
It’s not that nomadic people inherently despise the old and the weak and value the young and the strong, but they are often faced with situations where they have no choice. Many times people are unwilling to abandon the old and the weak and fail to surrender, so the young and strong can only pull out their machetes and fight for their lives. p>
If you win, rush into the side wall and grab a handful. If you lose, hundreds of people will die.
Regardless of winning or losing, the food ration problem can be solved and the winter crisis can be successfully overcome.
Just need some people to stay in this autumn forever.
When Liu Chengzong led his army to Nanshan Fort, this was what awaited him. Sixteen thousand Mongolians, who were short of food and clothing, gave him the power to decide their own life and death. Whether the enemy would fight or surrender, it was at his whim.
time.
Liu Guoneng was extremely helpless: "Commander, Xining has been recruiting refugees. The cultivated fields have not yielded much harvest. The price of food in the Hehuang Valley has increased by 20%. With more than 20,000 prisoners, I am afraid there is no spare capacity."
"It's a good thing..."
Liu Chengzong said the happiest words in the bitterest tone, looking up at the intersection of the majestic snow-capped mountains and the blue sky and white clouds: "God doesn't want so many people to live. I am not God. We are all human beings regardless of Xia Yi, so let's tide over the difficulties together.
Placement."
After that, he took a deep breath, the look of compassion on his face faded, and he raised his head and said: "Haixi, Haibei, Erwan, Xining, harvest as much as you can. If you can't harvest, just fish in the Navy Yamen. If the food is not enough, just
I can only aggrieve my brothers and eat less food and more meat this winter."
"At worst, I'm fighting this battle in vain." Liu Chengzong raised his thumb and turned to the generals around him and smiled: "We ate all the cows and sheep of Gu Ru Taiji!"