The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on August 15th, the 10th year of Shunzhi period in the Qing Dynasty.
The little emperor of Shunzhi spent this Mid-Autumn Festival in Guihua City, in the shadow of Daqing Mountain and on the bank of the Yellow River. He was not staying in Beijing. He came to Guihua City on a cold day, of course, not to eat Mongolian-style goat cheese-filled mooncakes, but to play the role of a Mongolian Khan.
At present, there are Tushetu Khan, Zhasak Tuhan, and Chechen Khan in Mobei Khalkha Mongolia, as well as the Jerimu League, Zhuosotu League, Zhaowuda League, Xilingol League, and Ulanqab League in Monan Mongolia. The princes all sent their troops to the grasslands north of Hetao, waiting for the Mongolian Khan to come over and command them.
Isn't Shunzhi sweating profusely now? Now Emperor Taishu Duduo only talks about it but does not practice. He makes the excuse of going to Japan to fight against the Japanese, so his origin cannot be distinguished. If the Great Khan of Shunzhi does not go, then the Great Mongolia will have to be disbanded... The Great Mongolia is also part of the ancestral country, so of course the Great Khan of Shunzhi must find a way to preserve it. Moreover, the Mongolian armies of the Three Khalkha Tribes and the Five Monan Leagues gathered in the Hetao Grassland were quite large. They were claimed to be one hundred thousand, but in fact they numbered no less than eighty thousand. Although the combat effectiveness is not satisfactory, it is still a large army, and it is still a cavalry. Now that we are going to the Central Plains, why should Emperor Zhu have a drink?
Therefore, the Shunzhi Khan listened to Sony's suggestion and used the sign of the Khan's personal conquest. However, he did not go deep into the Hetao. Instead, he erected Chagan Sulede, a symbol of the Great Khan's authority, in Guihua City, which is more than 700 miles away from the sandy land of the Hanhai Sea. Like sweat.
He also ordered the princes and princes of the Three Khans of Mobei and the Five Leagues of Monan to go to Guihua City to meet and participate in military discussions before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
When they first arrived at Guihua City, Shunzhi, Sony, Baiyintu (Minister of the Interior and Commander of the Qianfeng Battalion), Zhuo Butai (Minister of the Interior and Commander of the Qixue Battalion) and Namushengge (Minister of the Interior and Commander of the Qixue Battalion) and others also The plan was to drive the Mongolian army on the grasslands north of Hetao to the eastern section of the Great Wall in Yulin Town before winter came, and try to break the Great Wall in the Fugu and Shenmu areas to sweep away the rear of the anti-Qing forces in northwestern Shanxi.
Then he led part of the Mongolian army, passed through Jingxing Road in Taiyuan Prefecture, entered Beizhili, and finally went south to Zhongzhou...
However, the Mongol Khan kings from Monan and Mobei who came one after another to become naturalized and pay homage to the Great Khan brought unexpected bad news to Shunzhi and others.
The Ming army in Shuofang Town actually had the upper hand in the cavalry battle in the vast Gobi, and also caused huge casualties to the flexible Mongolian cavalry.
"Great Khan, the Han people in Yulin have learned bad things now. Instead of fighting with our Mongolian heroes with open swords and guns, they only fight with black guns!"
"Yes, they often send a small number of light cavalry as bait to lure our warriors into an ambush circle, and then kill them with fire blunderbuss, and then attack with lances and cavalry, which can often cause great damage to our warriors!"
"Great Khan, these Han Chinese black spearmen are still cavalry. They will mount their horses and flee if something goes wrong. It will be difficult for our brigade to catch them when we attack. Instead, they will be led into an ambush set by the infantry... .”
"Yes, it's too difficult to fight! Now our cavalrymen from all departments don't dare to go to the Gobi Desert!"
"If the Great Khan's heavenly soldiers don't move out, we really have nothing to do..."
In the presence of Emperor Shunzhi, in the Guihua Yinfo Temple, the Khans and kings of various Mongolian tribes complained to Shunzhi.
The Shunzhi Khan's Mongolian language is still not very fluent. He can still understand the text, but it is a bit difficult to speak and listen. If those Mongol Khan kings speak slowly, he may be able to understand the general idea, but these Khan kings He spoke too fast and didn't understand the hard work of studying...
"Great Khan," Sony knew that Great Khan's Mongolian was not good, so he said to Shunzhi in Mandarin, "the musketeers in Shuofang Town of the Ming Army are good at luring the enemy and setting up ambushes. They often use black guns to severely injure Mongolian warriors, and all the troops suffer heavy losses. ! It seems that it is not appropriate to fight with Shuofang's army in Yulin Town."
Emperor Shunzhi nodded and spoke in Mongolian, which was difficult for the Mongolians to hear: "Soni is right, what's so good about Shuofang Town? It's a poor place, and it's still occupied by bandits who came down from Luliang Mountain... ..What is the greatest ability of us Mongolians? It is that we can run. We can count horses alone, while the Han people only have two legs. So we should avoid reality and avoid competing with the bandits in Shuofang, and go to the Central Plains to make a fortune !”
Sending the Mongols to the Central Plains as cannon fodder was a clever plan devised by Shunzhi and Sony to resist the Ming Dynasty! They don't care about the Ming army's anti-black gun tactics. Anyway, the Qing Dynasty needs cannon fodder, and they need cannon fodder that can maneuver on horseback.
Now the San Francisco King of Zhongzhou doesn’t have many cavalry on hand to feed the Ming army’s black spears... If their cavalry is exhausted by the black spears or is too scared to go out, then the Qing army will become worse on the battlefield in Zhongzhou. Became blind and deaf!
Several Mongolian Khans listened with little understanding, and they didn't quite understand a bunch of long-winded words in front of them, but everyone understood the last sentence - go to the Central Plains to make a fortune!
Everyone loves getting rich!
Who doesn’t know that the Central Plains is rich and warm, and that the wealth of women is ten or a hundred times that of Shuofang? I remember that when the Mongols were arrogant in the Central Plains, the ancestors of the Jin family were very wealthy. Everyone had several large boxes of silk clothes and changed them every day. You can also eat a variety of Central Plains delicacies, and every meal is different! Moreover, women from the Central Plains can be snatched as concubines and maidservants. How can they be compared to being left on the grassland to suffer and freeze?
"Khan, is this true?"
"Great Khan, do you really want us to go to the Central Plains to rob the Han people's property?"
"Great Khan, are you going to seal some households in the Central Plains to the heroes on the grassland?"
The three Khan kings of Khalkha are the most powerful. Their fiefdoms are all in Khalkha Mongolia. It is now the Little Ice Age. That place is even poorer than Monan Mongolia, and there is also a ferocious Maozi coming next door. Every three days If you are in Chawu, come and grab one!
It really brings tears to my eyes when I talk about it!
The Golden Family, the descendants of the Great Khan, are now the targets of random robbery by the Cossacks...
"This is what the Great Khan means!" Namusenge, the commander of Qixue, shouted loudly, "The heroes of the three tribes and five alliances should go to the Central Plains to make a fortune... We are attacking Shuofang just to force Wu Sangui to leave the Yeerqiang Khanate. Withdrawing troops? In fact, attacking the Central Plains is the same!"
Obai's brother Guarjia Zhuobutai, who also speaks fluent Mongolian, immediately took over the topic and started to lie: "Mongolia and Manchuria are originally one family! We share blessings and suffer hardships together... .We all share the same benefits of China equally!"
"This is really great. We share blessings and share hardships...Long live the Great Khan!" Prince Wu Keshan of Horqin Zhuoli Ketu is the leader of the Zhelim League and the father-in-law of Shunzhi. Tai's brother, of course, has to be Shunzhi.
Anyway, in Zhongzhou, Emperor Shunzhi would not let Horqin's warriors become the targets of the Ming army's black guns...
Shunzhi nodded: "You all follow me and go to the Central Plains to make a fortune together!"
"Long live the Khan!"
"Want to be the vanguard of the Great Khan!"
"Sweat profusely, sweat profusely..."
A group of Mongolian princes all cheered!
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Laoshan, Yanshan Palace. Emperor Zhu Da was currently in a large room that was decorated as a war room, discussing the situation of the Zhongzhou war with a group of generals and military advisers.
Huang Xiaobao walked in and handed Zhu Cihong an urgent report from Shuofang.
Emperor Zhu was stunned when he opened the report and then laughed: "Shunzhi went to the Hetao Grassland... Is he determined to become the Great Khan of Mongolia?"
"Your Majesty," Military Advisor Li Yan said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if he is really willing to go to the grassland to claim kingship, or if he just feints to paralyze us... Anyway, we are already fully confident. We will definitely be able to capture the Qing army’s Henan camp before Shunzhi comes back from the grasslands!”
Zhu Cixiang nodded: "Okay! Then let's choose an auspicious day to receive Princess Jianning's dowry!"
Just like the last Northern Expedition, this time Zhu Cixiang still had to lead the expedition in person, and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains... Of course, he also had to bring the French Prince Condai with him!
