Chapter 154: The Transmission of the Treasure Can Be Determined

As Li Shimin said, the secret of the Tang Army's victory is nothing more than the strength of the soldiers. Now it is really revealed.

The overwhelming advantage in equipment is not only that it can only hit one shot of handcuffs at the beginning of the war, although this handcuff is indeed the first to take the lead, and in the moment of engagement, hundreds of people from the Heshute Department were overturned to the ground, but it has not yet reached the point of locking the battle situation.

First on top of the armor.

The Ming army is everyone wearing armor, and when the sun shines, it simply has the feeling of shining the sun.

But Heshute Ministry, how much iron armor can he have.

Not to mention, whether they have such armor of the right weight and weight for cavalry, the number of heavy armor of the Heshute Department alone is not enough to equip the whole army.

You must know that when the tile spur occupied the Western Regions and the north and south of the desert, and even extended the soldiers and horses to Liaodong, at that time, the number of iron armor of the tile spur did not exceed 100,000.

Or even less.

Now, after the battle of Yanran, the tile spurs not only lost their soldiers, but also lost a large amount of armor.

Although Azi Timur was fighting and devoting himself to recovery, building iron armor was also one of them. It's not that the Western Regions don't produce iron, it's just that the speed at which the Western Regions build iron armor is a joke compared with the production method of the Ming Shaofu's division of labor, which is close to the modern factory system.

If you really want to say that the output of iron armor in a month in the Ming Shaofu is even more than the output of a year in the tile spur.

Although the Ming Dynasty does not dare to say that all soldiers are equipped with armor, of course, this is not needed. But ironclad is by no means something in short supply.

But now, the total number of tile spur iron armor is probably only 50,000 or 60,000.

If the tile spur is still like this, the Heshute Department can be imagined.

Not to mention anything else, if the Heshuo Special Department had 30,000 iron armor, he would dare to wrestle with the tile thorn in the Western Regions, how could he be honest and obedient.

All the iron armor of the Heshuo Special Department is less than 10,000 pairs. Comparable in number to the Ming army.

But the quantity is comparable, and the quality is not easy to say.

It's like a thorn, all kinds of armor, some of which are from the Yuan Dynasty, some from the Ming Dynasty, and even some from the Great Food, some of which are made by themselves.

On the grassland, each pair of iron armor is the inheritance of a family.

Precious very.

It's just a pity that even if such an iron armor is well maintained, in Daming's opinion, it is just rags. And most of them are heavy. Even though the horses of the Heshute cavalry were a little better.

But it can't withstand such a high frequency of battles.

There is a sense of disconnection with the other cavalry of the Heshute Division.

As for those unarmored cavalry, in the eyes of the Ming army, they were simply armed herdsmen. When you meet these cavalrymen, you don't care what the other party does, just rely on your armor and cut him.

On the battlefield, there is armor and no

There is armor, and it is completely two states.

So dozens of fights came down.

Although Fan Guang couldn't hold on a little.

But even more unbearable is the Heshuo Special Department.

Kuntu looked at the corpses everywhere in front of him, most of the corpses were Heshute soldiers wearing various armor or various tattered robes, and the corpses of the Ming army were not nothing.

But it's much less.

There were already several generals who were terrified that the Ming army had used magic and they were invulnerable.

Kuntu never imagined that when he fought against the Chagatai Khanate in the Western Regions, he would be invincible, conquer everything, and come and go to Tibet, which was also decided by a war.

But he didn't want to face the army of the Ming Dynasty, but he was fighting like this.

Kuntu knew what kind of success it was to be able to drive the tile thorns in its heyday to the elite of the Ming army in the Western Regions from Mobei.

He knew that he couldn't win this battle.

He smiled bitterly and ordered the troops to retreat. When they returned, they obeyed the orders of Qing and Temur.

"Taiji, what are you going to do?"

Quintu said, "Someone must be cut off from the army." ”

Cavalry battles are no better than foot soldiers.

The footmen have a limited range of pursuits, if no one is here to get in the way. The Ming army was able to chase the Heshute Department all the way to the Jokhang Temple, and even further to the southwest.

Hunt to death.

After leaving 3,000 soldiers behind, Quintu let the troops retreat.

In this way, the situation on the battlefield is very obvious. It also made Fan Guang breathe a sigh of relief. Surrounded Quint, there was no attack for a while, and he immediately inquired about the situation below.

only to find out that his condition is actually a fairly common condition.

At least more than 1,000 soldiers were in this condition, and it is difficult to say how many of the 2,000 soldiers killed were killed by the enemy for this reason.

Fan Guang took some people down to rest, and Ling Heyong surrounded and suppressed Kuntu.

In addition, camp on the spot. Don't dare to pursue easily.

At dusk, Kuntu conferred the head, plus the harvest of cleaning the battlefield. The supplies of the Ming army were not lacking for a while. But in the longer term, it is enough for Fan Guang to worry.

But soon, Fan Guang was relieved.

Almost not long after the collection of troops, a large number of monks arrived. When I met Fan Guang, I brought some gifts, all of which were food baggage.

can be regarded as solving Fan Guang's urgent need.

Fan Guang immediately issued a political declaration to these monks of the Ming Dynasty to Tibet, that is, the various ministries are as good as ever, and the eight Dharma kings who were previously crowned by the Ming Dynasty, except for the heirs of the King of Interpretation, the rest are inherited according to their own succession, and the relationship with the Ming Dynasty is also the same as before.

However, Da Ming came from afar to defend Tibet. During the period in Tibet, the land near Zhupa and Jokhang Temple belonged to the Ming Dynasty and supplied the Ming grain and grass.

Before the expulsion of the Heshute Ministry, the Ministries needed to supply the army with food and grass, but the imperial court did not

It will be forcibly levied, and all will be settled in cash.

Of course, if the cash brought by the army is insufficient, you can use the army to issue receipts, and the departments can send people to Xining to collect the silver taels.

Naturally, all the Tibetan tribes were unified one after another, in order to show their submission to the Ming Dynasty. They are willing to provide a part of the grain and grass for free, and the Gelugpa are the most hard-working.

At this point, Fan Guang also reciprocated.

After all, in the eyes of outsiders, Dorjee is a member of the Gelug sect. The Gelug faction can be regarded as a death force for the Ming Dynasty.

Fan Guang asked the Gelug sect to collect and bury the body of the Ming soldier, build a temple in the nearby mountains, and offer incense to this soldier.

This may seem like a chore, but in fact part of the land in the Jiqu River valley was assigned to the Gelug sect, after all, almost every monastery in Tibet can be regarded as an administrative unit, and each monastery has a large amount of land and slaves.

In addition, various ministries are also willing to send a number of monks and soldiers to help the king.

As for the combat effectiveness of these Tibetan soldiers, it goes without saying. Fan Guang didn't count on it at all.

It's just that now the army is fighting non-combat attrition. There are thousands of people, and the elite soldiers who can fight are only about 5,000 people. The number is also a little too small.

There are more people, and it is good to be strong.

On the second day, Fan Guang marched to the southwest, and never met the resistance of the Heshuo Special Department, and before entering the Jokhang Temple, he knew that the Jokhang Temple people had gone to the empty building.

Only the ground was left in a mess, and even some golden Buddhas were taken away.

It made the Tibetan monks heartbroken, but it made Fan Guang breathe a sigh of relief.

Without him, in Fan Guang's view, the Heshuo Special Department is isolating itself from Tibet. After all, Tibet believes in Buddhism, and Jokhang Temple is a holy place for Buddhism.

Among them, there is also the legend of the Buddha statue of Princess Jincheng. It is even more obvious that the preciousness of these golden Buddhas can almost be listed as holy relics.

Tibet doesn't seem to be resisting strongly, but if the Heshuo Special Department has done such a thing, no sect of Buddhism will cooperate with him. Without the cooperation of Tibetan Buddhism, it would have been impossible to gain a firm foothold in Tibet.

The people sent by Fan Guang to inquire about the news, and the same was true of the news that came.

There were only tens of thousands of people in the remaining Heshute tribes, including the old and weak, women and children, and they went all the way south, passing through a blank field and sacking many places, but they crossed the snowy mountains and went south.

While appeasing these Tibetan monks, Fan Guang politely refused to send troops to pursue them to avenge them. Even in such a situation, Fan Guang is still happy to see it.

For any foreign ruler, weakening the local power is something they want to do, it is nothing more than whether they can do it or not.

Moreover, Fan Guang's forces had been used to the limit, so he could only stand still for the time being, and report to Beijing for instructions.

How should Tibet be blocked, and soldiers should not be left to garrison.

Only by determining how the imperial court would dispose of the Tibetan land could Fan Guang decide what kind of policy to use in the Tibetan land. Now this is only a temporary policy.