Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Chengen couldn't care about Jiang Beiming's proposal to attack Shengjing overnight, and their minds were on returning to Beijing, so Xu Lang's plan was quickly agreed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xu Lang bought hundreds of horses from Guihua City through Omubu and gathered a regiment of mounts. At noon the next day, more than 1,000 Yulin troops set off in the direction of Shengjing under the leadership of Jiang Beiming and Xu Lang.

The rapid action of the Yulin army once again stimulated Lu Xiangsheng. Although Lu Xiangsheng issued an order to pull out the camp and set up the village last night, by noon the next day, the various departments were still not ready, which made Lu Xiangsheng secretly admire the speed of the Yulin army.

The Yulin army ran on the grassland for a day and ran out of more than 200 miles, but the war horses really couldn't run, so Jiang Beiming had to order to set up camp.

"Xu Lang, do you think Huang Taiji can take Beijing City?" Jiang Beiming asked with some concern.

"Put your heart in your belly." Xu Lang smiled, "Absolutely impossible. ”

"Chief of Staff Xu, how do you know that it must be impossible?" Wang Qianxiang still called Xu Lang's position when he was in the mixed brigade, "Huang Taiji used 80,000 horses this time. ”

"The current Beijing is not the time of Chongzhen's seventeenth year." Xu Lang said, "The Ming Dynasty still has some strength. Even if Cao Wenzhao and Lu Baozhong were tied up by Gao Yingxiang, the armies of other places would go to Beijing to Qin Wang. ”

"In that case, then why did Tao Min use all his men to fight Beijing?" Wang Qianxiang asked again.

"Don't forget one thing, all of you." Xu Lang looked at Jiang Beiming and Wang Qianxiang, "Tao Min and Tao Gong are also people who have been ahead for 400 years, and they don't know that the current war is fought on resources, that is, national strength." I estimate that Tao Min must have used a lot of manpower and material resources to mine and smelt iron in Liaodong in the past six months, and it is difficult for Liaodong's economy to improve. So he came to Beijing this time, firstly, to attract us back, and secondly, to grab something more. ”

"That's right." Jiang Beiming nodded, "Tao Min can lurk in our crossing group for four years, then he must have a long-term plan, and this war with the Manchus may not be able to be fought in a few years." ”

"Don't think about it so much just yet." Xu Lang said, "Let's talk about the things in front of us first, our horses have run enough today, we have to find a place to get some horses these days, if we don't change horses, we will have to run to death in a few days." ”

"Where to change horses?" Wang Qianxiang asked, "There is no post station here." ”

"No post station." Xu Lang smiled, "Can there be no horses on the Mongolian steppe?" ”

"Do you really want to grab a horse?" Jiang Beiming felt that it was not appropriate, "We have just established a good relationship with Omubu, and if we loot on the grassland, I'm afraid it won't be good." ”

"Nothing bad." Xu Lang explained, "We are not just pure robbery. I've thought about this problem, let's exchange the horses that can't run for their horses, and we should buy theirs if there are more. ”

"But we didn't have any money."

"No money, no IOUs." Xu Lang smiled again, "Won't you play white?" ”

"You." Jiang Beiming and Wang Qianxiang pointed at Xu Lang and didn't know what to say, "You can also figure this out?" ”

"How else could there be a 400-year-old leading mind?" Xu Lang waved his hand and stopped joking, "It's not really a white strip." Naturalization City is now Zhou Lei's regiment and those Jin merchants' militia groups, it is difficult to say what will change after Lu Xiangsheng leaves, my idea is to let these Mongolians take our IOU to Naturalization City and Zhou Lei to ask for money. said that he was going to ask for money, but in fact, he was going to do business, and we told them that Guihua City would reopen business. As long as you can start a business and everyone has money to earn, there won't be much of a problem. ”

The next day, the Yulin army ran out for about 50 miles, and the scouts came to report: "Report to the chief, several yurts have been found ahead, 10 miles away." ”

"Do you have horses?" Xu Lang asked a question that he was most concerned about.

"Report to Chief Xu." The scout replied, "There are horses, but not many, about 100 or so." ”

"How many Mongols are there?" Jiang Beiming asked again.

"Report sir, there are a total of 8 yurts, there should be dozens of people."

"I'll go." Xu Lang turned his head and shouted, "Ye Zhan, take two companies, bring an interpreter, and follow me." ”

Xu Lang led two companies of Yulin Army to the outside of the eight yurts under the guidance of the scouts.

Xu Lang put down the binoculars in his hand: "Ye Zhan, lead a company to bypass, block their back road, and try not to fire." ”

"Yes, Mr. Xu." Ye Zhan took people and Pegasus away.

Xu Lang waited for a while, and saw that Ye Zhan's people had already bypassed the yurt, so he waved his hand: "Let's go." Everyone is loaded, and no shots are allowed without my orders. ”

The 100 cavalry slowly pressed close to the yurt, and the Mongols heard the movement and ran out of the yurt. More than 20 men, armed with bows and arrows and weapons, stood in front of the women and children.

"Quite a gentleman." Xu Lang chuckled, "Interpreter, you go and shout to them and tell them that we are here to do business, not to kill and rob." ”

"Yes, Lord Xu." The Mongolian interpreter agreed, and under the cover of a platoon, he ran to the yurt with a wooden shield.

After a while, the interpreter ran back again: "Back to Lord Xu, they agreed to exchange with us, but they said that we can't hurt their women and children." ”

"I'm full." Xu Lang smiled, "Let's go and talk to them together." ”

Xu Lang led people to these Mongols, led by a Mongolian man of about forty, five big and three thick.

Xu Lang hugged his fist at this man on his horse: "We are from the Ming Dynasty, and we want to buy some of your horses, which tribe are you from?" ”

After listening to the translation, the man replied to Xu Lang: "We are from the Chahar Department, and we only listen to Lin Dan Khan's orders. ”

"You're from the Chahar Ministry?" Xu Lang made up a nonsense temporarily, "Lin Dan Khan is in Naturalization City now, you can go there to find him, Lin Dan Khan is gathering his people." ”

"Really?" Dozens of Mongols began to talk one after another.

"You don't know yet, do you?" Xu Lang continued to make up nonsense, "Lin Dan Khan and the Ming Dynasty have rebuilt the old friendship and reopened trade, so we came to the grassland to help Lin Dan Khan at the behest of the Ming Emperor." As long as you keep going west, you can find Lin Dan Khan when you reach Naturalization City. ”

"Your Excellency." The Mongolian man seemed to believe Xu Lang's words, "Is our Great Khan really in Guihua City?" ”

"Yes, he's in Naturalization City." After Xu Lang answered, he said, "We need your horses now, are you willing to exchange them with us?" ”

"I wonder what the adults want to exchange with us?" The Mongolian man asked.

Xu Lang silently counted the number of Mongols: "There are 68 of you now, I will leave you 40 horses and give you a letter." You take the letter to Guihua City to find a Ming Qianhu named Zhou Lei, and he will give you what you need. ”

"No, no, sir." The Mongolian man waved his hand again and again, "We only exchange here, we don't go to Naturalization City." ”

"Why not?" Xu Lang's attitude became stern, "It is your Lin Dan Khan's intention to go to Naturalization City, do you want to disobey your Great Khan's orders?" ”

"We don't want to disobey the orders of the Great Khan." The Mongolian man replied, "But we don't know Chinese characters either, and we don't know whether what the adults are saying is true or false." ”

"Someone." Xu Lang didn't want to waste any more time, the surprise attack on Shengjing was the main thing, "Take their horses away, and take some of the cattle and sheep away." ”

The Yulin army behind them rushed to the Mongol horse pen.

"You can't rob us of anything." More than two dozen Mongol men raised their weapons to stop the Yulin soldiers.

Xu Lang pulled out his handcuff and shot into the sky: "No one is allowed to move." If you still want to live, do what we say you do, or we're welcome. ”

Faced with more than 100 flintlock muskets, dozens of Mongols watched as the Ming army took away all their horses, and had to reluctantly accept the facts.

"These forty horses are for you." Xu Lang asked people to bring over forty horses that couldn't run, and wrote a letter on the horseback, "You take this letter to Naturalization City to find Zhou Lei, he will compensate you, remember that the person you are looking for is called Zhou Lei." ”

After Xu Lang finished arranging, he didn't talk nonsense, and together with Jiang Beiming, he took the Yulin Army and started to run wildly.

Along the way, the Yulin army relied on half-grabbing and half-buying, constantly changing horses, and maintained a process of more than 200 miles a day.

"Xu Lang, we're about to enter Houjin's territory, there won't be any danger, right?" After setting up camp, Jiang Beiming, Xu Lang and Wang Qianxiang began to discuss the next day.

"There will always be danger." Xu Lang smiled, "But it won't be a big trouble." ”

"Come on, you all come and see." Xu Lang spread the map on the table, "Tomorrow we will arrive at Fuxin in the future generations." Fuxin now belongs to the Mongolian Uliangha tribe, and the leader is called Shanba. It is nearly 400 miles from Fuxin to Shengjing, there is no big castle along the way, as long as we take Fuxin, we can reach Shengjing within two days. ”

"Chief of Staff Xu, are we going to attack Fuxin?" Wang Qianxiang asked.

"It depends." Xu Lang replied, "If there are not many Mongols and Eight Banners soldiers in Fuxin, we will take Fuxin; If they are well defended, we will bypass it, and Shengjing is our target. ”

"But if we don't defeat Fuxin." Jiang Beiming asked a question, "Then when we attack Shengjing, don't we have to suffer from the enemy on our backs?" What if Fuxin's army attacks us from behind? ”

"Beiming." Xu Lang said with a smile, "You really want to take Shengjing, our Yulin army of more than 1,000 people didn't even bring a single artillery, so we couldn't beat Shengjing at all, and we couldn't really fight Shengjing." ”

"What's your idea?" Jiang Beiming saw that Xu Lang was not a little nervous, and knew what he had come up with.

"Don't forget, there's another thing that is our weakness." Xu Lang said, "It's food." We ran all the way, and we didn't bring much food with us in order to get on the road. Each of us carried five or six days of military rations with us, and we only got here by half-grabbing and half-buying along the way. Now there are less than three days of food left, if we go to Shengjing, then once it is delayed, we will not even have anything to eat. ”

"So what do you want to do?" Jiang Beiming asked.

"That's what I thought." Xu Lang replied, "Every time Houjin enters the customs, the main thing is to grab things, so let's learn from them." Our current 1,000 Yulin troops have horses, so we are very mobile. There is still more than half a month before the time we made an appointment with Wang Zhaoxing, and this is also the time when Huang Taiji may return to the army. So in the past half a month, we have been looting around Shengjing. It can not only solve our food problem, but also deal a blow to the economy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

"There's something you probably didn't expect." Xu Lang said again, "Tao Min will definitely mine and smelt iron in the next half year, and his mine is estimated to be not too far, just around Shengjing." ”

"You want to destroy his mines?" Jiang Beiming asked excitedly.

"Clever." Xu Lang smiled, "Destroy his mine and let him build it for another half a year." ”

"Hahahaha." Jiang Beiming and Wang Qianxiang laughed together, "It's really yours, how did you think of it?" ”

"What's this?" Xu Lang said with a smile, "Fight snakes and fight seven inches, Tao Min and Tao Gong are also people who have crossed over, no matter how cunning they are, their thinking patterns will not be much different from ours, think about it, you will always find their weaknesses." (To be continued.) )