Chapter 623: Turpan
In mid-October of the first year of Chenghua.
Liu Juntao led his army all the way to the west, and along the way, he constantly encountered small groups of attacking cavalry sent by Ganthlan, but they were all repelled by the officers and men of the Tiance Army one by one.
However, the speed of the army's advance was inevitably affected, and the soldiers of the various divisions were exhausted.
Seeing this, Liu Juntao ordered the army to hug together, and the distance between the various departments was all shortened, so as not to give the Tartars a chance to take advantage of it.
Ten days later, seeing that the Ming army's defense was getting tighter and tighter, and the casualties of the iron cavalry sent out to attack and harass began to increase, he ordered the whole army to shrink and deploy defenses around Hamiwei, preparing to fight to the death with the Ming soldiers.
As the soldiers and horses of the Tartar troops began to shrink, Liu Juntao immediately ordered the troops to speed up their advance, and successively recovered Guazhou, Handong Zuowei, Hami Dayandun and other places along the way, and strictly ordered the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi Town to come immediately after changing guards with the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp, and to divide troops and garrison them along the way.
A few days later, Liu Juntao led his troops to garrison Haramuti, about 100 miles east of Hamiwei, and the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army marched rapidly for more than ten days, and the soldiers were also exhausted, so Liu Juntao ordered the army to stay here for three days to rest.
At this time, Liu Juntao received urgent information from the Shogunate's Intelligence Department: Gangaslan had colluded with the Turpan Department entrenched in the west of Hamiwei and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and the leader of the Turpan Department had agreed to the request for Jiaslan to send troops to support, and gathered 100,000 troops and horses to march eastward ten days ago, and it is estimated that they will arrive in Hamiwei within a few days!
After learning the news, the commanders of the towns of the Tiance Army were shocked, after fighting for so long, they finally killed tens of thousands of Tartars, and now it is good, Gan Gaslan has added a powerful ally, and the Tartar army has increased by 100,000!
But unlike everyone else, Liu Juntao was not surprised when he heard the news, and said to his subordinates: "This matter is so good, this Jia Silan has done Benxian a great favor!" ”
Everyone was puzzled, Liu Juntao laughed and said: "Benxian is worried that our army has no reason to continue to advance westward, and now Jia Silan colluded with Turpan to openly resist the imperial army, which just sent me a wonderful reason to send troops!" ”
Therefore, Liu Juntao ordered the whole army to stay on the spot for a few days, waiting for follow-up supplies, and at the same time ordered the requisition of 30,000 soldiers and horses from the Shaanxi Xingdu Division to rush to the front line to support, and arrived within 20 days.
Seeing that Liu Juntao was actually preparing to continue to increase his troops, everyone was in high spirits, and it seemed that the scale of this battle was about to be further expanded.
With Yan Hu, the chief officer of Taiyuan Town, leading the soldiers of the Eagle Yang Army to the front line, coupled with the 30,000 troops reinforced by Shaanxi Town, it will not be long before the strength of the Ming army on the front line will increase to about 120,000!
This is not counting the strength of the Changshui Army and the Servant Army of the Iron Cavalry that attacked Hamiwei from the north.
In this battle, the Ming army has invested more than 300,000 soldiers and horses!
Just when everyone's hearts were swaying, Liu Juntao said to Liu Zi'an; "This Turpan jumped out at this time, it's really just right! However, everyone is not very familiar with the situation in Turpan, and the Ministry of Intelligence has also made a lot of efforts on the situation in the Western Regions over the years, so Minister Liu will be talked about by everyone. ”
Liu Zi'an naturally took the lead, and said to everyone: "This Turpan was originally a remnant of the Mengyuan Dynasty, entrenched in the vast area west of Hamiwei and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and now the army is strong. Moreover, Turpan has been watching Hamiwei and wants to take it for himself, and this time the king of Turpan, Sutan Ali, promised to send troops to resist our army, and it is estimated that he also fought Hamiwei's idea! ”
Liu Zi paused, and then said: "Since the ninth year of Jingtai, Turpan has become stronger and stronger, and King Sutan Ali has repeatedly used the excuse of the border people of the country to make trouble, and has led more than 10,000 troops to invade Hamiwei. At that time, Hamiwei had not heard of the military revolution for decades, how could he be the opponent of the fierce Turpan warriors? The Turpan soldiers marched into Hami, put the crossbow Wen Dali and the command ribbon issued by the Ming Dynasty into a cloth bag and threw it on horseback, singing and dancing. This incident caused a huge sensation in the court back then, but because the Warat and Tatar departments were still there, the court never made up its mind to punish them! ”
Liu Juntao followed Liu Zi'an's words and said; "Now, the Warat Department and the Tatar Department have been wiped out, and the Tartars of the Tartar Department of the Gazlan Department are about to be destroyed, and Turpan actually jumped out at this time, which is simply self-defeating! Therefore, this constitution decides: this battle, Hamiwei is only the beginning, the army will go all the way to the west, all the way to the west of the Western Regions, take advantage of the situation to pacify Turpan, and restore the territory of the Western Regions! ”
When everyone heard this, their blood boiled, this is to expand the territory and recover the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties! As a martial artist, what could be more glorious than this!
"The last general is willing to fight bloody battles with the soldiers and conquer the world!"
Half a month later, the 30,000 soldiers and horses mobilized by the Shaanxi Xingdu Division arrived in advance, and a few days later, the imperial court stepped up to send grain and grass for the army for a month, and the rest of the soldiers were not counted, and the front-line army had already rested.
Moreover, Liu Juntao also received an urgent report from Zhou Zongsheng, the chief military officer of Hanhai Town: The Iron Cavalry Army has arrived in the grassland north of Hamiwei and is waiting for an opportunity!
Liu Juntao was also very happy to get this news, and was about to order the soldiers of all departments to march in full gear, when he suddenly learned that he had sent a messenger!
Lan Siqi and Zhang Yuqing both advocated not to see this envoy, after all, this battle is related to the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also related to the net worth and life of the entire clan of Jiasilan, this envoy is definitely not here to sue for peace, so there is really no need to see it.
However, Liu Juntao has a deeper consideration, after all, if you have more contact with the enemy before the war, you can better understand the enemy's thoughts.
Seeing this, Lan Siqi and Zhang Yuqing didn't say anything anymore, but stood beside them one on the left and one on the right.
It didn't take long for the envoy of Gaslan to enter the big tent of the Chinese army.
This person is in his thirties, and he looks like a Han Chinese, but he wears a round white hat and a white robe, which looks nondescript.
Liu Juntao immediately frowned, and his face became gloomy.
When the envoy saw that Liu Juntao did not kneel down and salute, but saluted with the gift of Islam, Zhang Yuqing immediately rebuked: "When you see Master Hou, why don't you use such a cult gift instead of a big gift!" ”
The envoy said arrogantly: "Now that the Western Regions are all the land of the Holy Religion and the land of iron horses, the rites of the Holy Religion in the Western Regions are the greatest rituals, why can't you do it!" ”
Then, the messenger said to Liu Juntao: "You Han people should not set foot here, this is already the blessed land of Allah Allah, there is no need for the Han people to be contaminated by the world, and the army of the Ming Kingdom must immediately retreat, otherwise the wrath of Allah and the power of the iron horse will make you Han corpses all over the field!" ”
Liu Juntao was immediately furious when he heard this, and shouted loudly: "Bastard thing! Looking at your appearance, you should have been a Han Chinese, but now you dare to turn your back on your ancestors and become a foreigner when you believe in a cult, you are really crazy! The Western Regions has been the hometown of the Han and Tang dynasties since a thousand years ago, and it is the paradise of my Han family, and today it is occupied by Yidi and eroded by the cult, which is the shame of my Han family! It's the sins of you who have forgotten your ancestors! ”
"If you believe in Islam, you will be with China from the outside, and from the emperor and Han, how different is this behavior from a traitor!"
After Liu Juntao scolded, he said: "Now that my emperor's soldiers have won many battles, they want to march westward, re-incorporate the Western Regions into China, and use Yidi's blood to wash away this shame!" As for your cult this time, after this war, this constitution will be banned altogether, and this inferior and despicable cult will disappear forever! ”
When the messenger heard this, he immediately remained silent, and then became angry and scolded Liu Juntao.
Lan Siqi and Zhang Yuqing were both furious, they had never seen such a brazen person, they believed in a cult, and turned around and despised their ancestors and mother clan so much, it was unreasonable.
And Liu Juntao felt extremely sad, there were many people like the envoy in later generations, and after believing in Islam, they changed the nationality to Hui, and even changed the ethnic group for the sake of some unfair preferential treatment policy stipulated by the state, and changed the dignified Han nationality to a minority ~ people ~ clan, making the dignified Han people become second-class ~ people; Even many people are scrambling to move ~ the people, turn their heads and kneel and lick foreign countries, and they are cold to their motherland, speak wildly, and are full of contempt for their compatriots, even foreigners can't stand it, what is this not a traitor?
Ancestors, bloodlines, nations, and countries are worthless in the eyes of these people, they only have money and interests in their eyes, and their hearts are full of inferiority, ignorance, and selfishness!
For a while, Liu Juntao was eager to kill all these people, Huaxia didn't need this kind of miscellaneous! But Liu Juntao was just a student at that time, and he could only be heartbroken and helpless about this situation!
Now, Liu Juntao has hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, and he already has the ability to change this situation, so he will never let this kind of scum exist anymore, and he will never let the kind of pathological phenomenon in future generations appear!
Huaxia is the Huaxia of the descendants of Yan and Huang, what is the descendants of Yan and Huang?
It's the people of the big man! It is a huge ethnic group with the Han people as the core and the local Chinese people as the branches and leaves!
And those scum who have forgotten their ancestors, willingly defected to other races, and tried to unite with other races to cause chaos in China with cults, the only end is to die without a place to be buried and leave a stench for 10,000 years!
"Now that the 100,000 troops of Turpan have arrived and stationed north of Hamiwei, how can the Ming Kingdom be our opponent......"
Liu Juntao was furious at this time, and without waiting for the messenger to finish speaking, he suddenly pulled out a long knife and slashed the head, and the messenger couldn't believe that Liu Juntao would kill himself directly!
"Bingxian!"
Lan Siqi and Zhang Yuqing also jumped.
Liu Juntao calmed down a little and said, "Hang this miscellaneous head on the gate to show the public!" ”
"Yes!"
"Two days later, the army will send Hamiwei!"