Chapter 787: Into Tibet
In the first battle of Dawan City, Huang Baifeng was almost completely annihilated, and the army of the black-clothed Dashi in the Western Regions.
Then things were much simpler, Huang Baifeng used Dawan as a base and sent troops everywhere to regain lost territory.
In just a few months, the entire 36 countries of the Western Regions returned to the control of the Central Plains Dynasty.
When I came down to Huangbaifeng, I reported to Jia Ke in the capital with an expedited 800 miles, this time I went to the Western Regions, and what should I do next?
And Jia Ke was also overjoyed after receiving Huang Baifeng's performance in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and from then on, the Chinese territory was finally complete.
Jia Ke naturally won't let the Western Regions regain the control of those subject countries, Jia Ke made a decree to Huang Baifeng, ordering the Eight Banners to leave 20,000 people stationed in the Western Regions, and the 100,000 people from Xuanfu Town were also handed over to Huang Baifeng for control, and at the same time appointed Huang Baifeng as the governor of the Western Regions.
Jia Ke then told Huang Baifeng that he should use these troops to exterminate the remnants of those kingdoms in the Western Regions, and he didn't want to see the existence of the so-called king in the Western Regions.
And Xiao Yue returned to the garrison with 50,000 horses from the Fenwu Battalion and 60,000 cavalry from the Eight Banners.
As for why Jia Ke let Huang Baifeng serve as the governor of the Western Regions Governor's Mansion, it was because Huang Baifeng was already old, and after training, he was calm and controlled the place, which made Jia Ke feel more at ease than those enterprising generals. What's more important is that others will betray Liu Hai, and Huang Baifeng will never do such a thing.
The distance from the capital to Dawan is nearly a month to reach Kuaida, and by the time Huang Baifeng received Jia Ke's will, it was already early autumn.
After receiving Jia Ke's order, Huang Baifeng did not dare to slack off, and immediately reorganized the army, letting Xiao Yue return to the army with his 50,000 Fenwu battalion and 60,000 Eight Banner cavalry, while he himself began to sweep back and forth in the Western Regions with the rest of the men and horses.
If you want to talk about Huang Baifeng this time, you have to thank the black-clothed food, because the black-clothed food is constantly cleaning up in the Western Regions, almost all the nobles who have a sense of resistance have been killed, and now all that is left are some stragglers.
Huang Baifeng's army only supervised the surrendered Western Regions army, and these surrendered Western Regions troops fought bravely in front of the enemy, and quickly killed all these rebellious people.
Next, Huang Baifeng has Dawan City as a base and controls the entire Western Regions.
Besides, Xiao Yue took more than 100,000 horses and horses to advance to the Central Plains along the way they came, but they didn't yet, and when they arrived at Yumen Pass, they received Jia Ke's holy decree halfway, asking them to temporarily stop advancing and wait for Jia Ke's order at any time.
It turned out that there was turmoil in western Tibet, which had always been peaceful (everyone understands what the place is, so I won't write it directly, otherwise I won't be able to pass the trial).
To say that western Tibet has always been the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty, but due to the high altitude and too far distance, it has always been in a semi-independent state, with the local Tusi and living Buddha in western Tibet jointly controlled, just symbolically send some gifts to the Central Plains Dynasty every year.
I don't know why this year, the living Buddha who controls the Western Regions suddenly announced that he would establish a Buddha kingdom on the earth.
Since the Buddha country was to be established, it was natural that it could no longer accept the rule of the Central Plains, so this living Buddha gave an order, and the entire western Tibet rebelled.
To say that this Tibetan West has always been controlled by Tibetan Buddhism, this Tibetan Buddhism is also strange, they have proclaimed many living Buddhas, this is the reincarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva, that is the incarnation of the Great Bodhisattva, all people with some identities are the incarnations of the Buddhas of the heavens.
Therefore, in the large and small Buddhist temples in western Tibet, there is at least one living Buddha in every Buddhist temple, and in western Tibet, these living Buddhas actually control the production, life, and religious culture of the entire western Tibet.
As the great living Buddha, Luorong Demba is the leader of these living Buddhas, and it can almost be said that the Dalai Lama is the uncrowned king of western Tibet.
This time, it was this living Buddha who wanted to establish an earthly Buddha kingdom, so he launched a rebellion and wanted to fight against the Central Plains.
No one knows why the Living Buddha of Luorong Demba had the idea of fighting against the Central Plains, only that he had already taken action and that he had expelled the supervisors sent by the central government to western Tibet.
After Jia Ke received this news, he immediately ordered Xiao Yue's army to stop advancing and be ready to enter Tibet at any time to quell the rebellion.
As for why he didn't march immediately, it was because Sun Yan, the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, thought that he should salute first and then soldier, so that the people of the world could be convinced.
So Jia Ke sent a person from the Ministry of Rites to go to western Tibet with his own holy decree of accountability, if the other party can repent, Jia Ke can also temporarily endure a semi-independent kingdom.
Because now the Central Plains has just fought a big war with the black-clothed food, although it is said to have achieved a decisive victory, but it has also cost a lot of money and food, Jia Ke thinks about waiting until next year's spring to bloom before marching into western Tibet, otherwise, the current march is the coldest winter in western Tibet, I am afraid that the soldiers under his command will not be able to adapt to the environment.
However, the officials of the ministry here took Jia Ke's holy decree, but after arriving in western Tibet, they were driven out without even seeing the face of the living Buddha of Rong Demba.
This is still due to the fact that the Central Plains Dynasty has been the suzerainty for many years, and it still has some deterrent power for western Tibet, otherwise I am afraid that I will not even be able to save my life.
After the envoy was driven out, he did not follow the road back to Sichuan and then enter Beijing, but went directly north, through the Gobi Desert, and came to Yumen Pass, where he wanted to join Xiao Yue's army.
And Xiao Yue's army was originally stationed outside Yumen Pass, and after receiving the order of this messenger, the army immediately set out, and returned to Yumen Pass in less than three days.
As soon as Xiao Yue arrived at Yumen Pass, the officials of the Ministry of Rites immediately took out a copy of Jia Ke's secret decree and read it out in public in front of Xiao Yue and the Eight Banners.
The general meaning of this will is: the living Buddha of Luorong Dengba in western Tibet, who did not obey the will of the imperial court and had an irregular heart, specially appointed Xiao Yue as the marshal, led people and horses into western Tibet, quelled the rebellion, and punished all the monks who were sentenced to rebellion for the crime of rebellion, and severely punished.
After Xiao Yue received the holy decree, he did not immediately raise troops to enter western Tibet, because the weather was already cold, and these horses under his command were still wearing summer clothes, so they needed to wait for the supplies from the imperial court before they could enter western Tibet.
And Jia Ke naturally would not let his soldiers go to western Tibet to die, he had already ordered the governor of Shaanxi to prepare winter clothes for the army, as well as forage for horses.
If it was necessary to prepare so many materials in the previous dynasty, it would cost a lot of money, and it would take a while for the court to make mistakes.
However, since Jia Ke boarded the plane, the implementation of the apportionment, the officials and gentry paid the grain in one piece, plus the collection of commercial taxes, and now the imperial court is very rich.
It is said that Shaanxi, which was originally a bitter cold land, now received Jia Ke's order, and it only took more than a month to prepare all the winter clothes and grain and grass.
After preparing the supplies, the governor of Shaanxi immediately sent someone to inform Xiao Yue.
When Xiao Yue got the news, he sent 10,000 cavalry to go, why did Xiao Yue send so many men and horses? That's not because there is already tension with western Tibet, and there are many ethnic minorities in this pass who believe in Tibetan Buddhism, and if these people make trouble, this material will disappear halfway.
This time Xiao Yue was really struck by it, and 10,000 horses were on the way back to the barracks with supplies, and they really ran into those believers in Tibetan Buddhism, and they swarmed to rob the military funds.
As a result, these people encountered 10,000 Eight Banner cavalry, and were immediately chased by these cavalry like rabbits, running around the grassland, but in the end they still did not escape the encirclement and suppression of the Eight Banner Cavalry, and the Eight Banner Cavalry swept more than ten or twenty villages and small towns along the way, which frightened all these people, and they no longer dared to fight the idea of this batch of materials.
When Xiao Yue received the supplies, it was already two months later, and it was about to enter late autumn and early winter.
Xiao Yue summoned all the generals and the commanders of the Eight Banners to discuss whether to march now, or wait until next spring to march into western Tibet.
Naturally, these generals in the Central Plains did not want to go to a bitter cold place like Tibet to fight in such cold weather as winter.
One by one, they all forbade Xiao Yue, let the army rest temporarily, and wait until next year, after the spring flowers bloom, and then wave their troops south to conquer western Tibet.
But the cavalrymen of the Eight Banners disagreed, because these people originally lived in the north, and the bitter cold was not much worse than Tibet, and they did not have any aversion to fighting in winter.
And the representative of them, Ji Rigula, who was Jia Ke's hardcore confidant, saw that the generals of the Central Plains, one by one, were afraid of the cold and refused to go south, so he stood up and said: "Since even you think that you should rest in the winter and fight again in the spring, I think that those Tibetans think the same way, so we will do the opposite and give them a surprise attack in the winter." When the time comes, we will be able to achieve the greatest results at the lowest cost. ”
Ji Zhigla's words silenced those generals in the Central Plains, don't they know this simple truth? It's just that I'm afraid of the cold and don't want to toss in this winter.
Xiao Yue sat on top of the handsome position, and watching these people below arguing, he could be regarded as understanding the meaning of these two groups of people.
"What you mean, Ben Shuai understands, but Ben Shuai thinks that what Ji Rigela said is reasonable, if we wait until next spring to come to western Tibet, those people who want to come to western Tibet are also ready, if we fight again, we have to fight with them layer by layer, and in the end we will win, we will also lose a lot, it is better to go south, and strive to eliminate it at the lowest cost, as for saying that the weather is not conducive to marching, it is also very easy, those people in western Tibet have a lot of yaks in their homes, and when we capture a place, we will collect these yaks and transport military funds, If the soldiers are tired, they go south together on yaks. What do you think? ”
The Eight Banners generals at the bottom naturally didn't have anything to say, and the Central Plains generals saw that the main generals had said everything, so they could only agree with what they could say.
Xiao Yue and everyone agreed with his opinion, and immediately ordered: "The army should rest for three days, put on winter clothes, and immediately set off as a whole army after three days and march into western Tibet." ”
After listening to Xiao Yue's order, the generals below surrendered their hands together, and then withdrew from the big tent and prepared to go.