Volume 18 Chapter 47 A tooth for a tooth and continue westward
The snow melts, everything recovers, and as the cold winter leaves, the Osan Mountains are full of life.
The second army of the border guards has set off one after another, rushing to the central and northern parts of the osan mountain range to build fortresses and garrison troops, and half of the first army of the border guards has also rushed to the southern part of the osan mountain range to garrison key passes.
Everything is going according to the plan of the previous year, the first corps of the frontier army is stationed in the south of Wushan and Wushan City, the second army of the border guard army is stationed in the central part of Wushan and the northern part of Wushan, and the Qin army is preparing to return to Shaanxi Xingdu Division to garrison, one is to deter the countries of the Western Regions, but also to save the cost of grain and grass transfer, after all, Wushan City is too far away from the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the cost of transporting grain and grass is quite large.
Sun Chuanting was in a pretty good mood at this moment, after fighting abroad for so long, and stationed in this terrifyingly cold northern place for a cold winter, now that he can finally go back, even if he is used to military life, he can't help but feel a little excited.
However, this good mood came to an end with the arrival of a eunuch.
This eunuch is not a notorious villain, Cao Huachun's control of his subordinates is still relatively strict, and the current eunuchs are completely less arrogant and domineering when Wei Zhongxian was in power, and they dare not do bad things.
This eunuch is not here to supervise the army, Zhu Cijiong is not so incompetent that he needs to rely on eunuchs to govern the country, and he will never do such a ridiculous thing as eunuchs supervising the army and supervising wars.
In fact, this eunuch only came to pass the decree, he brought the secret decree of the emperor's imperial pen himself, as for the specific content he didn't know, he didn't dare to point fingers in front of the deputy marshal Sun Chuanting, he ran away after passing the decree, this ghost place, it's almost summer and it's so cold, he doesn't want to stay longer.
Sun Chuanting couldn't help but wonder, there was a telegram at this time, why did the emperor send a eunuch to deliver the decree in person, although the train and ship are relatively fast, but it will take at least ten days for the capital to arrive here, why bother?
When he opened the secret decree, he understood that it was not that the emperor did not want to send a telegram, but that the telegram really couldn't send so many things.
This is not so much a secret decree as a letter, and the emperor did not confess one or two sentences, but densely wrote several pages.
After reading the secret decree, Sun Chuanting couldn't help sighing, it seems that he doesn't want to go back in a short time.
However, he didn't get depressed because of this, he only thought about it when he went home or something, and now that there is something, he naturally won't think about it anymore, he has always put state affairs first.
He already understood what the emperor meant, that is, to consume people, the longer it is consumed, the better, the greater the momentum, the better, in short, it is to consume the enemy's manpower and material resources as much as possible.
If you want to make the enemy panic and increase your troops, it seems that relying on the Qin army's strength is not enough, he thought about it, and then said loudly: "Someone." “
The herald ordered the guards to enter, and Sun Chuanting immediately ordered: "Elect Zu Dabi and Hou Gongji, each with 50,000 horses, to come to Wushan City to listen to the order, and the defense of Rem City and Tunguska City will be handed over to his generals." “
The guards went as ordered, Sun Chuanting thought about it, flipped out another map, and carefully considered it.
Although there is a large gap between the central part of Osan and the southern part of Osan Mountain, the terrain is complex, the water and land are staggered, and the height is uneven, so it is not suitable for the advance of the army at all, and if you rush to send troops, it is very likely to encounter a sneak attack by the enemy.
There is also a special explanation in the emperor's secret decree, steady and steady, step by step, building railway lines and advancing slowly, even if there is no battle, it doesn't matter, as long as you can attract the enemy.
How to fight this protracted war, Sun Chuanting is actually quite good, it is normal to fight a big war for a few years before there are no trains and ships, isn't this what he originally studied.
As Sun Chuanting's orders were passed down one after another, the Ming army, which had been silent, slowly moved.
First of all, the First Regiment of the Frontier Army in the south of Osan suddenly became dishonest when they guarded the key passes, and frequently sent cavalry into the territory of Tsarist Russia to plunder everywhere, just like the original nomadic tribes fighting grass valleys, and the people on the southeastern border of Tsarist Russia were panicked, and a large number of civilians moved westward, and the army also hid in their respective fortresses, and they did not dare to come out.
If it weren't for the collective solidarity of the anti-Habsburg alliance powers, the Ming Empire signed an armistice treaty, I am afraid that Tsarist Russia would have been destroyed by the Ming Empire!
This kind of connivance seems to have fueled the arrogance of the Ming army, and then the Second Army of the Frontier Army was not honest, and they also frequently sent cavalry into the territory of Tsarist Russia to plunder everywhere, making the entire eastern border of Tsarist Russia unstable, and the civilians were running out.
If this is the case, no matter how angry Tsarist Russia is, it will have to swallow its anger, the Ming army is powerful, they can't do it at all, and the allies will not run over to support this little thing, what can they do.
However, the actions of the Ming army did not stop there, and it didn't take long for the Ming army to start from Wushan City, all the way to the west, and build a railway!
In fact, there are not many people who repair the railway, Zhu Cijiong also transferred 20,000 people from the Eurasian Railway to the construction corps, and the materials for repairing the railway are on the spot.
Now Tsarist Russia can't sit still, if the Ming army is allowed to repair the railway, and when the time comes, the armored combat vehicles will be transported over, who can stop it!
Tsarist Prime Minister Rozov was almost stupid, the Ming Empire was too domineering, he just let people sneak attack their border guards, they robbed the whole of Siberia, and they almost ousted themselves by political opponents.
Now that the armistice treaty has just been signed, and the indemnity in the treaty has been paid on time, they have actually begun to move westward again, should they be so scoundrels!
He knew that if he didn't think about it, Tsarist Russia would be destroyed by the Ming Empire, and there was actually no other way to think about it at this time, but to ask the allies for help, and the old fox of Richelieu would definitely not watch the Ming Empire destroy Tsarist Russia and enter the European continent in one fell swoop.
So, he quickly sent an envoy to France to ask Richelieu for help.
At the same time, he also sent an envoy to Wushan City to protest to the Ming Empire, protesting against their non-compliance with the armistice treaty, and seeing if he could use this to make the Ming Empire, which has always regarded itself as a great light, retreat.
As a result, the envoy was unceremoniously bombarded back by Sun Chuanting, and the reason was very simple:
As soon as our Ming Empire retreated, you launched an attack on our allies, and the Ming Empire was really bullied!
Who the hell is bullying whom, Rozov just wanted to cry without tears.