These days have exhausted Chen Qiyu and Lian Guoshi.
Chen Qiyu, Qingyang Mansion, inspected the battlefield, and Xi'an Mansion tried to mobilize troops, so it borrowed Zu Kuan's first battalion of Liao soldiers from Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Dale of Huguang to support them.
When practicing state affairs, he also ran on both sides. He kept wandering between Qinzhou and Xi'an. He mainly obtained food to prepare for war, coerced and lured, and begged for alms. Anyway, he tried every trick that could be used.
The two of them were exhausted, but they didn't dare to relax at all. They both knew that the Marshal's Mansion was about to run out of food. Liu Chengzong's attitude was to risk his life to make a big splash in Shaanxi. The front line from Jinglu Guards to Gongchang Mansion had already been laid out. The defense line has been opened, but I just don't know when he is going to fight this battle.
There were obviously more outsiders coming and going on the official roads in Qinzhou and Guyuan. There were both foot soldiers and traders sent by the Marshal's Office, small businessmen and hawkers sent by the Ming Dynasty, and even Tang soldiers from the two armies mixed in, and sometimes they clashed with each other. Fire breaks out, but more often than not they just look at each other and go about their respective missions.
The wait before war is the most frightening.
But no one expected that Sichuan would be the first to call for help from the imperial court.
On the fifth day of April, a letter from Liu Hanru, governor of Sichuan, was delivered to Qin Fulian's hands. The letter stated that the marshal's army had entered Sichuan and that Mingshan and Lushan counties in Yazhou were occupied by the Japanese troops.
Lian Guoshi looked at the letter and asked, "How could Yazhou be captured?"
Although he could not clearly know the geographical location of Yazhou, he knew that there was Yazhou on the western border of Sichuan, which was a key point on the Tea Horse Road.
But what he didn't understand was why he was attacked? In other words, there are so many places that could be attacked. Why was it Yazhou on the western border of Sichuan, and why was it attacked at the critical moment before the Shaanxi War?
The first thought that came to Lian Guoshi's mind was that Liu Chengzong wanted to mobilize the Shaanxi Ming Army to enter Sichuan to suppress the bandits.
This thought started and couldn't be stopped. The Qin army entered Sichuan. When the time came, the peasant army in the mountains would attack in large numbers and cut off Hanzhong. The marshal and commander drove to Guanzhong and blocked the Qin army in the Sichuan Basin. The sky and the earth would not respond. , the situation is getting worse from now on!
But in fact, Liu Chengzong of Lanzhou had also just learned of the news, but the focus of the information was different.
In Liu Chengzong's case, because the Marshal's Mansion was well-established at Kangningyi Road and the news was more immediate, his army had actually retreated from Yazhou to western Sichuan.
Due to winter, the north and south of the Marshal's Mansion have been cut off for four months. The post road has just been restored. Letters were sent to the Department of Communications, and Lin Wei compiled them and presented them to Liu Shizi.
Liu Chengzong looked at the Kangning Mansion report compiled by Lin Wei and said to himself that Kangning is really lively this winter!
Last fall, Liu Guoneng of the Kangning Mansion took his orders to help Muya avenge himself and start a war with the Shenbian and Lengbian chieftains on the east side of the Dadu River. Li Laoji and Feng Shuangli, who were stationed in Kangning, brought a group of troops to prepare for entering Tibet to attack the fort. The guns and cannons caused a dimensionality-reducing blow to the chieftains of Shen and Leng.
They don't even have a few matchlocks, and the army is drawn out to fight in a large square formation of spears. It's better here west of the Changhe River. When the army is brought to the battlefield, the music is played with thousand-jin cannons, and the big iron balls plow a bloody path. How to fight this battle?
The battle was devastating, but for Feng Shuangli... it was not enough.
Moreover, the income is not as big as Liu Guoneng, who is based in Nangqian, imagined. Unlike Muya, the chieftains of the Shen Leng family have their properties on the west bank of the Dadu River. Their territory is on the east bank, closer to the Ming Dynasty. Many properties are located on the east bank of the Dadu River. Yazhou, Meizhou and even Chengdu Prefecture.
However, one thing Feng Shuangli discovered during the battle was that the Shen Leng family had stored a lot of tea cakes, which were to be sold into Uzang. The source of this batch of tea cakes was the tea mountains in Mingshan and Lushan counties.
The Marshal's Mansion already has control over the production areas of huge reserves of salt, iron, and tobacco, all of which consume huge amounts of money, but it has not yet mastered the production areas of tea, a specialty product.
The winter in western Sichuan is also quite cold. Feng Shuangli's troops were stationed on the east and west banks of the Dadu River to rest, and then they received an urgent message from Liu Guoneng. The three Mongolian Taijis in Uzang sent us work.
It was said that Taiji would be raiding the Lhasa Valley again in autumn. The red-hot Santaiji was almost out of reach in Uszang, so he could only make harsh words and tell the people hiding in the Dzong Mountain Fort in Shigatse Zangba Khan, the reinforcements from the Generalissimo's Mansion will arrive soon, and they will destroy you as soon as they arrive!
Zangba Khan was in panic all day long after hearing the rumors.
Although Uzang is a closed place, and the Marshal's Office has never sent troops into Uzang, to Zangba Khan, the name Liu Chengzong is like thunder.
Because Dunyue Duoji was his powerful ally, he was a hegemon in the southwest and was very powerful. Suddenly one day Liu Chengzong led the Han army from the north to drive the Tatars down. Dunyue Duoji died suddenly without even putting up any decent resistance.
In fact, for Zangba Khan, if it was not the three poor Huo Luochi family who entered Tibet, but Liu Chengzong with the power of victory, he might have surrendered at that time.
Even if they didn't surrender, they would probably run from Nepal to India.
But he didn't run away at that time, and it's too late to run away now. Today, only the section from Shigatse to Lhasa is still under his control. The rest of the place is full of Mongolian cavalry, even in the territory passed down by their family for generations. I don’t know how many spies were bribed by the Mongols.
He made preparations to escape today, and the news would be known to Guru Taiji tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, Taiji would kill him on the road just by telling him.
Therefore, Zangba Khan could only serve as a living doctor. He asked his Dharma king to send people to Sichuan to ask for help from the Ming army. He did not hope that the Ming army would enter Tibet to support him, but that the Ming Dynasty could contain Liu Chengzong. Energy, even if the emperor gives Liu Chengzong an order, just don't let him enter Tibet.
Anyway, these three Mongolian Taijis did look like they were about to be dragged to death by him.
But Zangba Khan himself was almost finished. He was finished, not because of his military strength, but because of his people's hearts.
Almost all the upper-class religious nobles in Uzang fell to Xiao Lazun's side.
The monks don't care who the leader of the tribe is in secular terms. For them, it is no problem for Zangba, as a rising noble from Uzang's hometown, to lead Uzang; it is no problem for Mongolian brothers from the grasslands to lead the secular tribes on the snowy mountains. but.
Because this is the perfect agreement that Master Sakya Pandita reached with Prince Kuoduan in the Liangzhou Alliance 400 years ago: Mongolian cavalry can freely enter the snowy area and rule all Tibetan tribes on a secular level. ; Snow Mountain Buddhism can also freely enter the Mongolian Plateau and guide the Mongolian tribes on a spiritual level.
So when this dispute began, more than half of the religious people did not get involved. The remaining monks who chose sides had no other choice but to have the flames of war burn themselves. After all, Zangba and Xiao Lazun were behind two different factions.
They criticize each other, and the monks will suffer unreasonable disasters.
But last winter, the situation changed greatly, and the upper-class monks of Uzang found that it was time to choose a side.
The cause of the change came from a funeral message in the Mongolian Plateau. The leader of the living Buddha there passed away due to illness. The monks and Mongolian guards who traveled all the way with the news were detained the first time they entered Gansu - the Marshal's Mansion was at that time. There is a war in Gansu.
The person who detained them was Gao Yingdeng, and the news was reported to Cao Yao. Cao Yao sent someone to check their accompanying materials and found that they were indeed going to the snowy mountains to report their funeral, so he sent a small team of sergeants to Xining.
The person in charge of this matter in Xining was Mr. Liu. He did not embarrass them, but also opened the door to facilitate them. He selected five Yulin Cavalry, each led by ten cowardly Xue Gai who were good friends, and escorted them all the way through the post station of the Marshal's Mansion.
The fifty-five riders guarding the route were all talented people who understood both Mongolian and Western languages. Liu Xiangyu's idea at the time was to form a good relationship. After all, the Ming army was planning to attack the Hehuang Valley. Who was on the Hehuang side? I can't tell what the situation will be like.
However, Liu Xiangyu could not be said to be frightened at that time. Anyway, he had a retreat in his mind. He thought that if the army was defeated, he would take his son to retreat all the way to Uzang. He would not be able to achieve lasting achievements for generations, but with their army, in It is not difficult to establish a separatist dynasty on the snowy mountains.
So it’s not a big deal to help with funeral arrangements, and maybe we’ll become neighbors in the future.
Liu Xiangyu's instructions to the Yu Linqi were to keep an eye on the mourning team on the road and listen to their conversations. If they found that they were not announcing the funeral but were causing trouble, they should contact the Kangning Mansion garrison on the road to kill them all.
Fortunately, this group of people was indeed mourning, and the guards escorted them to Lhasa without incident.
After arriving in Lhasa, Yu Linqi and Qie Xue Ge returned, and the people on the snow-capped mountains discovered a problem: it was easy to come in when they came in, but when it was time to send people to the Mongolian plateau to find reincarnation, something went wrong and they couldn't get out!
Yu Lin rode into Tibet on the order of Master Liu, and the journey was smooth; but after Yu Lin rode away, Liu Guoneng was in charge of the Kangning Prefecture. One of the major responsibilities of the Kangning Prefecture was to seal off Uzang, a little animal. Don’t even think about passing through Qamdo.
The only monk on the snow mountain who can talk to Kangning Mansion is the Mongolian Living Buddha Xiao Lazun from Qinghai.
Xiao Lazun was also helpless. He could not solve this problem. The three brothers could only talk to Liu Chengzong through pretense, but they could only talk to Liu Chengzong.
What's more, he knew very well in his heart that business matters were business matters, and private matters such as searching for reincarnation, even if it was a pretext, they could only ask Liu Chengzong once at most before they obtained stable rule over the entire Uzang territory.
And that time, Xiao Lazun could not waste it on others.
They spread their hands and told everyone: "It is better to end the war in Uzang as soon as possible, otherwise my two brothers will be too useless in the eyes of the Khan. I am not forcing everyone to make a choice. This is your problem. It has nothing to do with me, anyway, my reincarnation will definitely go to the family of Generalissimo Khitan Khan Liu Chengzong."
"As for your reincarnation, hey, the Generalissimo's army is stationed at Duokang Sixth Ridge. It would be difficult to surrender to a place other than Uzang."
"But don't worry, even if there is someone who supports Zangba, if my brother doesn't let him be reincarnated in Uzang when the war is over, he can be reincarnated in Uzang even if he comes to me in dreams and I come to intercede. .”
Who can support Zangba?
Little Lazun has made it very obvious that if he continues to support Zangpa, even his reincarnation in Uzang will be a problem.
He was talking about dreaming.
Supporting Zangba now, the best case scenario is that Zangba wins and can be reincarnated in Uzang in the future. At least Zangba abides by the rules, but don’t think about it outside Uzang. Zangba does not have that much ability; and once If the three brothers Gu Ru, Bai Yan, and La Zun win, there will be no chance of reincarnation.
And in turn supporting the three Guru brothers, even if Zangba wins, he will not be unruly enough to prevent them from being reincarnated.
But there are always heroes who show their true qualities in the sea. A group of Dharma kings who are closely related to Zangba came out and sent seventeen people to find the Ming Dynasty for help.
Unfortunately, the news leaked out before the men seeking help left Lhasa. He pretended that Taiji had received the news and immediately asked Qamdo in Kangning Prefecture for investigation and interception. At this time, Li Laoji's soldiers were already stationed in Qamdo, and they were chased, blocked and killed on the spot. , and when they entered the area where Feng Shuangli was stationed, six more people died.
In the end, there were only two ways to escape into Sichuan.
Feng Shuangli originally planned to go down the mountain this year to seize the tea production area from the Marshal's Mansion. He had been preparing to break through the defenses since last autumn. It happened that Zangba Khan's envoy also entered Yazhou, so he simply attacked in advance and rushed down.
It seems to be a coincidence that there was a locust plague last year. Liu Guoneng hammered down all the neighboring chieftains in Kangning Mansion. He attacked Shen Leng's family first, and then Tianquan launched six attacks, causing Gao Ji to send troops accordingly. However, he did not win the battle. , a lot of territory was robbed by Feng Shuangli.
In the end, Liu Guoneng saw the two sides fighting more and more fiercely, so he came forward to negotiate a truce with Tianquan Chieftain years ago.
It's not that Yueyang doesn't want to fight, the main thing is that his main job this year is to get Li Laojiao and Feng Shuangli into Tibet, and he doesn't want to cause extra problems.
What's more, in his mind, this Tianquan Chieftain's territory is very large, and he can leave it until next year or the year after to clear it up, and then he can directly repay the commander's debts for three or four years.
It just so happened that Tianquan chieftain was not willing to continue fighting with the Marshal's Mansion. The final result of the negotiation was that he gave the land of Shen Leng's two chieftains to Muya, while Liu Guoneng gave back the other land captured by Feng Shuangli to Tianquan. toast.
They did cease the war, but the momentum frightened the Sichuan officers and soldiers. Not counting the garrison in Yazhou, they also transferred several local generals from Sichuan's Xingdu Division and gathered nearly 4,000 troops to defend the area near Yazhou all winter. .
It was not until the end of the New Year that the governor Liu Hanru just transferred the local soldiers back to Xingdusi. The spirit of the Yazhou garrison had been tense all winter. After finally relaxing, Feng Shuangli led his army to kill them. It only took thirty soldiers to fight inside and outside. Arriving at Feixian Pass, they broke down the blockhouses of hundreds of households that day and marched to the foot of Yazhou City.
Yazhou is a small town close to the Qingyi River. Feng Shuangli came from western Sichuan without any artillery, so there was nothing he could do to take the city. Fortunately, in addition to the old Shaanxi thieves who followed Zhang Xianzhong, his battalion was also a hard-working western Sichuan soldier who was used to walking on mountainous roads. , that night they bypassed the city and directly attacked Mingshan County.
Mingshan County had just received the news and before it had time to set up defenses, it was attacked by Feng Shuangli that day.
Feng Shuangli was very young, but he had followed Zhang Xianzhong and destroyed more than a dozen cities. He was very familiar with the rebellion process of killing and not burying people. He opened a warehouse to release grain and recruited rebels on the same day. It only took three days to transfer money, food and property from inside and outside Mingshan County. After plundering all the tea leaves, the army expanded to more than 7,000 people, and then turned to Lushan County in a mighty manner.
This time they were not able to enter the city, but as usual they plundered everything outside the city. A vast number of bankrupt farmers and servants carried tea leaves and grain on their backs and headed towards western Sichuan.
Feng Shuangli left two thousand troops with him. He originally planned to stay in Sichuan for a while, and even wanted to cross the Min River to visit Chengdu, but he didn't expect an army to come from the south and was frightened.
This army came from Yunnan. The general's name was Long Zaitian. He was a local official with a low official position. He was a camp commander. He was originally ordered to lead troops to Shaanxi to deal with Liu Chengzong. When he arrived at the border of Sichuan, he happened to catch up with this army. During the battle, the governor Liu Hanru was transferred to fight Feng Shuangli.
Feng Shuangli originally wanted to challenge him, but he didn't expect that Long Zaitian had too many troops. He brought a total of 9,500 native soldiers and 2,000 cavalry.
The most outrageous thing is that there are four war elephants.
The big black thing was so close that the sixteen elephant legs were shaking. Feng Shuangli didn't bring any artillery. The soldiers under the command could head forward with their guns and artillery, but they had never seen this thing at all. He was so frightened that he broke up and ran back to Kangning Mansion.
The first thing Feng Shuangli did after escaping back to Kangning Mansion was to write a letter to Liu Chengzong. He had already figured out that Long Zaitian's army had no way of entering Kangning, and the target was definitely the Marshal's Army in Shaanxi.
"War elephant?"
Liu Chengzong put down the letter and rubbed his hands, and said with emotion: "Long Zaitian is a good person. War Elephant...is it delicious?" (End of Chapter)
