Chapter 157: Hungry Wolf
At the beginning of October of the 11th year of Chongping, the Manzhen army, which had been confronting the official army in Liaodong for a long time, suddenly went against the norm, bypassing the defense line of Beiguan in Liaodong Town without the official army of the imperial court noticing, and broke into the interior of Dayun from the direction of Jizhou.
This time, the army of the Manchu Zhen troops going south has a total number of no less than 100,000, which can be said to be the best of the best.
And the person who led the troops this time was the current Khan King of Northern Mo, and he was also the common Great Khan of all ethnic groups outside the Saiwai.
The name of the great Khan of Northern Mozambique is Sojuro. Sedor, he's Sojuro. The fourth son born to Bolo's wife.
After Boluo's defeat in Beiguan that year, arrow sores recurred, and he was about to die of his injuries.
When he was dying, although he called his sons to the bed to explain the aftermath, he did not specify who would be his heir.
After that, it led to the tragedy of the sons seizing the throne, and the sons of Bolo were killed in rivers of blood, completely ignoring the slightest brotherly affection.
In the end, after almost a year of fighting for the throne. Victorious from the competition with his brothers, Shidor was elected the new Great Khan by the Manchu tribes, succeeding Bolo as Khan.
Soon after, the priest held a ceremony to succeed to the throne, at which he accepted the worship of the Manchu tribes, and announced that the second year would be changed to the first year of Tianlong, officially becoming the Great Khan of Manchu.
However, at the beginning of the succession to the throne of the priest, his position as the Great Khan of Northern Mo was not stable.
Although he is the titular Great Khan of Northern Mo, he is far from being monolithic within Manzhen.
In addition to the brothers who died in the battle for the throne, there were several brothers who were still unwilling to live under the throne and wanted to compete with him for the throne.
These brothers of Shidor have been under Bolo's tent for a long time, and they are all fierce generals who can fight well. And the reason why they have such a high status, in addition to the fact that they are Bolo's sons, is more important because they fought back from the battlefield little by little.
Manzhen people advocate blood bravery, and they have a martial style in their bones, and they never sympathize with the weak.
If a person cannot prove his bravery and ability on the battlefield, even if he is the son of the Great Khan, he will be ridiculed by others, let alone respected and ranked.
In Manzhen, birth and bloodline are important, but no warrior will want to follow the cowardly. This makes the position of the Manzhen Great Khan doomed to be devoid of the weak, which is also the difference between them and the Central Plains court.
The reason why Shiduo was able to inherit the throne of Khan was because he was the strongest among his brothers. If there is no guarantee of this strength, the sweat position will not be his turn anyway.
And among those brothers who have the ability and strength to compete with the priest, none of them are weak. All of them have made outstanding contributions and enjoy great prestige among the Manchurian tribes.
Although most of those people died in the battle for the throne, the problem was not completely solved.
Because not all the brothers chose to be hostile to Sedor at that time, and some people chose to support Sedor and stood on his side for various reasons.
It's just that although most of these brothers who are still alive have chosen to support Shiduo in the battle for the throne, it is also because they are not strong enough.
And in the battle for the throne, in order to win the support of as many brothers as possible, Sedor promised them many benefits.
This greatly increased the strength of these people, and by the time the battle for the throne was over, the combined strength of these brothers had even surpassed that of the Great Khan. And along with the strength breeds, their ambitions.
Especially after Shi Duo succeeded in ascending to the throne, the promises and benefits that he originally promised to those brothers were discounted, which undoubtedly caused extreme dissatisfaction among those people.
The brothers of Sedor met frequently in private, and unfavorable remarks against Sedor began to circulate among the Manchurian tribes.
In the eyes of many people of the Manchu tribe, these people are no worse than the new Great Khan, and if the lord they support can succeed to the throne, they will definitely do better than the new Great Khan.
After years of conquest and killing, the troops of the Manzhen brothers gathered elite soldiers and strong generals who had been on the battlefield for a long time.
It can be said that more than half of the army in North Mozambique is in the hands of these brothers and has become their private army. These armies, who were only subordinate to their respective lords, often turned a deaf ear to the orders of the Yangdu royal court.
And their power is not only in the army, but even in the royal court of Yangdu City, among those civil and military high-ranking officials in the palace of King Khan, there is no shortage of people who support them.
In addition to the hidden dangers inside, it is also not peaceful outside Manzhen.
In the north, there are strong enemies such as the Fufeng people and the Khambi people, who are more savage than the Manzhen tribe. To the west is the once glorious but now declining Mengwu tribe, but it can hold on to the Central Plains Imperial Court for hundreds of years, and the once suppressed Dayun Imperial Court cannot raise its head, and its strength must not be underestimated.
These tribes were only forced by the strong strength of the Manzhen tribe to surrender and attach themselves to the Manzhen tribe.
It can be said that the rise of the Manzhen tribe is based on the rolling heads of all ethnic groups in the north.
These tribes, large and small, were only scared of being killed by the Manzhen Iron Cavalry, but they did not really surrender.
If one day they have the ability to confront or even defeat the Manchu in their hands, they will definitely not hesitate to break away from the rule of the Manchu tribe and lead the troops to stand on their own.
Even now, the Manzhen tribe has overwhelming strength against them. However, they only superficially submitted to Northern Mo and paid tribute to the Manzhen Great Khan.
In fact, apart from appointing the patriarchs and elders of those tribes as officials, the Manzhen royal court had no other means to govern those tribes.
These tribes, on the surface, are vassals of Northern Mo and belong to the territory of Great Mo.
However, from the Bolo period, they did not obey the dispatch of Bei Mo very much. If they want to send troops to assist the Manchu army in battle, even a strong man like Bolo can only lure them more often than not.
And after the new Khan succeeded to the throne, the new Khan was young and did not have the military exploits and prestige of Bolo, so they did not take the so-called Northern Mo Khan in their eyes.
Therefore, in the territory of Northern Mo alone, Shiduo has too many problems to solve. Not to mention that in the south of Da Mo, there is also the Dayun Imperial Court, which can be called a behemoth.
Therefore, in the very beginning, the side of the priest can be said to be full of dangers. If anyone else sat in his seat, I am afraid that they would not be able to sleep well.
However, Sedor is worthy of a generation of heroes, and after smelling the danger, he quickly began to act.
It took him less than two years to defeat several of his brothers who were unwilling to obey him.
His brothers were killed or imprisoned by him, and his army was taken into custody by him. Even the tribes that originally supported those brothers were mostly divided and disintegrated by him, and they had to submit to the royal court.
In addition, Shiduo also studied the system set by the Central Plains court. From then on, all the armies of Da Mo could only obey the Khan King and could only obey the orders of the royal court. The rest, whoever they were, no longer had the right to mobilize troops.
Shi Duo took over the military power to the royal court, and from then on
The Manchu armies were only nominally subordinate to the lords of the various ministries, but in fact they were all the armies of the royal court, and the Manchu had no more private armies.
If the lords of the various ministries have no army, they will no longer have the capital to fight, and they will no longer be able to pose a threat to the royal court, and the Manzhen ministries will no longer have to consume their strength in the constant internal friction.
Without internal friction, Manzhen's interior was quickly made into an iron plate by Shidor.
Therefore, although they have experienced an infighting, the strength of the condensed Manzhen departments has not only not weakened, but has been greatly improved.
After that, it took less than a year for the priests to settle the rest of the tribes.
During this year, the priest went on a crusade to the east and west. The Fufeng and the Khibi were not his opponents, and in order not to be exterminated, he could only sacrifice the tribe's personnel roster and the number of livestock.
Following the example of the Central Plains court, Shiduo set up officials in various tribes to govern, and officially incorporated these tribes that were originally separated from Da Mo into the royal court's governance system.
After subduing the Fufeng and the Khibi, Shiduo went on an expedition against the Mugul, and through three great battles, he completely defeated the proud Mughu, and the Mughal tribes surrendered one after another.
In the fourth year of the Northern Mo Tianlong, the subdued Mughal people honored Shiduo as the Great Khan of the Mugul, and together with other conquered tribes outside the Saiwai, they gave him the title of honor. All ethnic groups revere Shiduo as Yudan Khan, and this Khan means the king of the mountains and grasslands.
The submission of the Mughals made Sedor the first Mughal Khan in hundreds of years to not have a Mughal royal bloodline.
However, the greatest enemy of Northern Mo has never been these uncivilized barbarian tribes. And who he really is, Shidor knows by heart.
After solving a series of internal problems, he finally set his sights on the south, looking at the world's No. 1 Xiongguan that claimed to be able to control the north.
At this time, Bei Mo was like a hungry wolf who was about to go crazy, with green light in his eyes and saliva dripping non-stop.
This hungry wolf is staring at the prey in front of him, and the prey in his eyes is the Great Cloud Imperial Court, which is located in the rich land of the Central Plains.
Over the next few years, the priesthood began to reuse the native Liaodong and the Yunren who had fled from the south. He repeatedly ordered to improve the status of the Yun people in the territory of North Mozambique, and implemented a series of internal reforms.
For example, he followed the example of the Central Plains Imperial Court and also set up six departments in the Northern Mo Royal Court. It also borrowed from the imperial court official system, formulated the grades of officials, and dispatched officials to govern the localities.
And with the improvement of the status of the Yun people, there are more and more Yun people in North Mo who no longer resist this barbarian regime. They gradually identified with this Khan King and sincerely worked for it.
While governing domestic affairs, the priest did not relax his military.
In just a few years, Shi Duo made several personal expeditions and went south to attack the Great Cloud Border Fortress.
The imperial court's border army in Liaodong was defeated again and again, and the dock forts north of Zhenbei Pass were lost one after another, and the Manzhen army even once came to the city of Zhenbei Pass.
It's just that because of the tall and strong city wall of Zhenbei Pass, the complete city defense, and the attack of the Zhenbei Iron Cavalry, the Manzhen army cannot succeed.
But the situation in the north of the imperial court is definitely not optimistic. Even if there is a famous general like Fang Ping to defend it, and the Liaodong Border Army and the Zhenbei Iron Cavalry are the most elite troops of the imperial court, they can only form a north-south confrontation situation with the Manzhen Army along the Zhenbei Pass.
If Bo Luo led the Manchu people to break the fear of the people of the Central Plains and the Yun people for hundreds of years.
The priest shattered this fear through victory after victory, and reversed it. Now, it was the turn of the cloud who thought he was in the Heavenly Empire to experience the fear that went deep into his bones.