"Okay, okay! I'll cede the herdsmen and pastures of the Xilingol League, give me five hundred thousand taels per year, and marry Prince An's daughter to me. That's great! If I can get the herdsmen and pastures of the Xilingol League, plus the original I have almost all the grassland on the left and right flanks of Chahar, Monan Mongolia, plus the three tribes of Mobei Khalkha, and I already have a situation like Dayan Khan..."
After reading Kangxi's autographed letter, Burney's face was filled with a smile of surprise. It seems that the conditions offered by Emperor Kangxi were quite satisfactory to him!
Wu Yingqi, Shang Zhixin, Geng Jingzhong, the three Khans of Khalkha Mongolia, and Burni's younger brother Luobuzang were all present, and they all laughed as if they were there.
Then Burni said to Sangyi Gyatso with a smile on his face: "Chief Lama, I heard that you are the senior brother of Emperor Kangxi?"
Sangyi Gyatso clasped his hands together and replied: "Exactly...the poor monk is here to teach Buddhism to the emperor's younger brother on behalf of his master, the fifth great lama."
Burney smiled and said: "Since you are so close to Emperor Kangxi, I would also like to trouble you to go to Beijing and bring my autographed letter to Emperor Kangxi. Is it convenient for the head lama?"
Sanji Gyatso said with a face full of joy: "Convenient, convenient... During the Yuan and Qing Dynasties, everyone believed in the Buddha. If it can resolve the war and avoid the loss of life, it is really a supreme merit. No matter how busy the poor monk is, Those who can find time to accumulate this merit."
Burney nodded and said: "I also want to have a face-to-face meeting with Emperor Kangxi... I wonder if the Lama Manager can facilitate it?"
Sangyi Gyatso thought for a while, and it seemed a little difficult. After a while, he nodded heavily and said: "I'll give it a try, poor monk... It's not that the emperor's junior brother is unwilling to meet the Great Khan face to face, but now that the Emperor of Zhou has The five armies are attacking the Qing Dynasty, and the emperor's younger brother is unable to resist, and is ready to move the capital back to Shengjing."
As he spoke, he sighed: "It has been decades since the Qing Dynasty settled in Beijing. I didn't expect that it would move back to Shengjing. If I had known this, why would I have bothered with it? All the glory and wealth were all illusions... Amitabha!"
Burni frowned and said: "Now that I am willing to make peace with Emperor Kangxi, is it still necessary for the Qing Dynasty to move the capital? Although the Emperor of Zhou launched a five-pronged attack on the Qing Dynasty, his own troops were only a hundred thousand, so he relied on The most important thing is my and Zhu Heji’s troops... If I don’t join forces with Zhu Heji, can’t he concentrate his strength to block the Zhu family’s troops?”
Sanji Gyatso nodded and said: "What the Great Khan said makes sense. The reason why the Emperor's Junior Brother wanted to move the capital was because he could not withstand the attack from the Great Khan and Zhu Heji, so he had no choice but to move the capital to Shengjing. If the Great Khan was willing to negotiate for peace, the Emperor's Junior Brother would There should be no need to move the capital. If he doesn’t move the capital, he should have time to make an alliance with the Great Khan... I wonder where the Great Khan wants to make an alliance with the emperor?"
Burni stroked his beard and thought for a while, then asked with a smile: "How about Qilbo, north of Taipu Temple's right-wing pasture?"
Qilbo is a lake located outside the entrance of the Great Wall of Datong. It is surrounded by grasslands and mountains, and it is also at a very important intersection. . Qilbo can go directly to Datong to the south, and to Zhangjiakou to the east. It is not far from Kuku and Tun, only more than 200 miles away.
According to the advance plan discussed by Burney and Wu Yingqi, the first stop of the coalition's eastward march was Chilpo.
After capturing Qilbo, the coalition forces can advance, attack, retreat or defend. They can attack both Datong and Zhangjiakou.
Sangyi Gyatso also knew this place. He had visited there when he came from Zhangjiakou. He nodded immediately and said: "Okay, poor monk, rest for one night and return to Beijing tomorrow...I don't know how big the sweat is." When do you want to make an appointment with the emperor to make an alliance?"
"It's the first day of April now," Burney thought for a moment, "Can the first day of May come in time?"
"It won't take that long. If the emperor's junior brother doesn't arrange to move the capital, he will definitely come as soon as possible. We should be able to meet in Qilbo around April 20th."
"Okay!" Burni smiled, "Then it's a deal!"
Sanji Gyatso asked again: "Did the Great Khan write a book and let the poor monks take it back to Beijing?"
"Okay, okay, let's take care of Lao Lama!"
...
On the third day of April, Kukuhetun, Silver Buddha Temple.
In a side hall of this huge temple built in the era of Amada Khan, Burni summoned his generals, including Wu Yingqi, Wu Guogui, Ma Bao and others, here the day after seeing off Sangye Gyatso. Military figures gathered around a topographic map of the racecourse on the right wing of Taipu Temple and held a "map-viewing military meeting" together.
Although Burni and Wu Yingqi were not shrewd, they were not stupid enough to believe that Emperor Kangxi would cede land, pay money, and make marriage. So after the big liar Sangyi Gyatso left, these people immediately began to deploy for the Qilbo battle!
"Either Kangxi won't come, or he will definitely bring enough elites with him... We can't take it lightly. We can first rely on Qilbo and the nearby Nao'er Mountain to set up formations, and wait for Kangxi to attack! He is now facing three sides When faced with an enemy, we have to seek a quick battle, so we can wait for work and be sure of victory."
The speaker was Wu Guogui. Although he felt that Kangxi was surrounded by enemies on three sides and was about to end, he still did not dare to take it lightly. Therefore, a tactic of establishing a defensive position first and waiting for the enemy to attack was proposed.
Burni nodded with a smile and said: "The Duke of Dai is indeed mature and prudent... I also think this method is very good, and I also learned the trick of waiting for work while fighting Galdan on the Khovd grassland. A clever strategy for defensive warfare.”
"What's the clever trick?" Wu Yingqi asked.
"Camel City!" Burni said, "That Galdan likes to put down the camel carrying the big box on the ground, and then put on the hooves to quickly form a shield that can block the bullets. At the same time, let the warriors under his command rely on muskets. Camels and boxes for shooting!”
"This is a good idea," Ma Bao nodded, "Khan, we also thought of a similar method... build a car barrier!"
"Wagon barrier?" Burni asked, "How to build it?"
Ma Baodao: "We have specially built a batch of box cars in Shaanxi in the past two years. They can be laid down and filled with soil. Long guns can also be set up on the cars to form a fortress. Then, musketeers and hammer-throwing cannons are deployed based on the fortress. Form supporting strongholds...and then rely on these strongholds to dig long trenches and build fortifications."
"Okay!" Burni said with a smile, "That's enough... We can put the camel city and the car fortress together, and then we can quickly build forts and dig trenches on the battlefield, and then we can stand on the battlefield. Undefeated!"
Wu Yingqi smiled and said: "Being invincible is victory! We can afford it, but Kangxi cannot afford it!"
Burni smiled and said: "What King Yan said is absolutely true!"
I have to say that combat effectiveness is also "rolled"!
Although the two groups of Burni and Wu Yingqi cannot afford flintlock guns, they can hardly support even the "low-sugar" army.
But they did work hard on digging trenches and building forts. One learned the "camel city", and the other was more advanced and learned the upgraded version of the car fort. Now we met and communicated, and there was a fusion, the car ramparts and the camel city, it was a perfect "roll"!
...
"Royal Grandma, don't worry... Burni and Wu Yingqi are no match for Sunzi in any way. Even if they have an army of 200,000, it will be useless. Sunzi uses 50,000 shotgun soldiers and 20,000 cavalry. It was enough to defeat them.”
Beijing, Forbidden City, Cining Palace.
Emperor Kangxi, who was reporting the plan for the Western Expedition to Bumbutai, was also confident. This morning he had met Sangyi Gyatso, who had returned from Kukuhetun. After learning that Burni had asked him to go to Qilbo to "make an alliance", he immediately ordered the resting troops to assemble without saying a word... However, he could not afford too many troops at the moment. Because part of the troops he brought back from North Korea were sent to Shanhaiguan and Tianjin for defense, the number of troops that can be used now is only 70,000.
But these 70,000 troops had all competed with the Ming army under Zhu Heji's personal command in Korea... Moreover, Kangxi also conducted long-term targeted training for them after the Battle of Seoul, and their tactical level was so high. It is quite "volume", and can be regarded as the "king of scrolls" among the Qing soldiers!
