Chapter 66 Target British Ningde led his troops westward

Ouyang He took the telegram and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Hehe! Commander Fan: They decided to send their entire fleet to the Western Ocean (Indian Ocean)! ”

"That's not all the plan out of order!" Chen Yufeng took the telegram as he spoke.

Chen Yufeng finished reading the telegram and handed it to Zhang Zhimu again.

Zhang Zhimu read the telegram once, and when he raised his head, Chen Yufeng said: "Fan Chengkun's suggestion can be considered!" ”

Ouyang He said: "There is no impermanence in soldiers, and there is no definite law!" I think we can agree with Fan Chengkun's suggestion. ”

"Hmmm! Anyway, now the initiative is in our hands, and we can fight as much as we want! In my opinion, since the British attacked first, we will solve the British first. Looking back, these Xiyi of the South Seas can't run! Zhang Zhimu also agreed with Fan Chengkun's suggestion.

Now Fan Chengkun has nothing to do with them in Manila, but they just arranged for someone to take over the more than 30 ships abandoned by Franco. Liu Chenghuang is responsible for the affairs on the shore, and Fan Chengkun Muyi doesn't worry about it at all, but Zheng Zhilong was invited by Liu Chenghuang to go ashore to help do the work of the Chinese people on the shore.

Liu Chenghuang and the others had already begun to send people to follow the people sent by the governor, with letters ordering the soldiers and civilians of Francji to surrender to the Yaogang people, and rushed to various places to accept the surrender of the Franc people.

With nothing to do, Fan Chengkun and Mu Yi were on one of the walls of San Diego's castle that had not collapsed, looking around at the entire Manila Bay.

Mu Yi couldn't help but say: "To say, this is really a natural harbor, but unfortunately, the natives here are all stupid. ”

"Hey! God is always like this, everything is not perfect for you! Fan Chengkun said with emotion.

"Yes!" Mu Yi nodded and said, "Let's just say here, if it weren't for us Chinese, this would still be a wild place." We Chinese are so smart, but we can't even eat in our hometown! ”

"But our court is too cowardly, the Chinese here have no support, not to mention the humiliation, many people have lost their lives here. However, now it's okay, Lao Liu and they have brought a lot of officials. If we organize all the Chinese here, this place will become our paradise. Fan Chengkun said.

"It's strange that this time Mr. Zhang didn't say anything about making us equal!" Mu Yi said incomprehensibly.

"Actually, I understand that the natives here, we can't give them equal rights all at once, they won't appreciate it, and it's not conducive to our current governance. There are too many of them. Wait until we have everything under control, slowly domesticate them, and then slowly give them rights, so that they will appreciate it! "Fan Chengkun sees things very thoroughly.

"Yes! The natives here are, after all, different from the people over there, and there must be a process of domestication! Mu Yi nodded and said.

At this time, a staff officer hurriedly ran over, "Report!" Command Center Telegram! ”

Fan Chengkun and Mu Yi looked at the telegram, there were several pages of the telegram, and they knew that something big was coming.

When Fan Chengkun took a look at the telegram, it turned out to be forwarded, and Qin Peng reported to his home the situation of the Burmese side and the British war.

Fan Chengkun read it, handed the telegram to Mu Yi, and ordered: "Inform Commander Liu immediately, saying that there is an urgent matter, and I want everyone to have a meeting on the Taiping!" ”

Liu Chenghuang and the others were busy in Manila, and when they received a notice, they knew that something must be wrong, so they rushed to the conference room on the Taiping. By the time the telegram had been circulated, everyone had arrived.

Fan Chengkun spoke first, "Everyone, the family notified us of this matter just to let us come up with an opinion." Because our ships are in Manila Bay, we need to study what to do, and then give our opinion to the family. Soon the order from home will also come down. ”

Yoo Sung-hwan said: "I think the military operation on Luzon Island is basically over. The Franciscans simply don't have the ability to confront us. Our next targets were Sora, Java, and Sumatra. However, I think that the Hongmaofan (Dutch) and the little Francois (Portuguese) in those places have fought against us, and they don't have the courage to fight us at sea. Now it seems that they are even worse at land warfare. I think they're what we've got in our pockets, and we can pack them up whenever we want. It is better for us to come over in a few days with our sailing ships carrying infantry, and then our navy will sail directly to the Western Ocean. First meet with the unconvinced British, and then go back and clean up these red-haired and small Franco. ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "Oops! The British, that is, that's nothing! However, their sphere of influence is on the side of the Wolmore Empire, which has always coveted Burma. Now they are not convinced when they see that we are moving. I don't think they have learned how good we are. This time, what we have to prepare is to chase to the gate of the Wolmore Empire and defeat the British completely. At the same time, we also have to face the Moore Empire, because we have finally hit the doorstep of the people. In particular, the British are the guests of honor in the Wolmore Empire, and we beat the British, and this self-esteemed Wommore Empire must have something to say. ”

Fan Chengkun said: "Uncle Chen and Mr. Ouyang have said that if we want to gain a firm foothold on the Burmese side, we must touch the Wolmore Empire in order to stabilize the border." It's better for us to solve the British this time, and at the same time, teach the Wolmore Empire a lesson, so that they can honestly draw the border with us. Settle the matter of the south once and for all. ”

Liu Chenghuang said: "In this case, we will cooperate with Li Zicheng and Qin Peng to solve the affairs of the Indochina Peninsula, and we will have to delay it for a while." ”

"The whole plan has to change." Fan Chengkun said, "If you don't have an opinion, we will send a telegram to our home and give us our opinion." Li Zicheng's side is coordinated by the family! However, I think Lao Liu, Fan Song, and Lu Qi will stay on Luzon's side. ”

Liu Chenghuang said: "We specify that we can't go, and the matter here must be handled while the iron is hot." I have time to go to Sulu with Fan Song and Lu Qi to meet the king of Sulu! ”

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He in the Yaogang Command Center didn't expect to make such a big adjustment to the plan at first. However, Fan Chengkun's telegram analysis is also very reasonable. After a little discussion with Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He, they unanimously agreed with Fan Chengkun and their opinions.

Qin Peng was of course happy when he received this plan from home, and immediately sent a telegram to Jiang Wei to inform Jiang Wei. Jiang Wei was also happy, however, according to the request, Jiang Wei did not disclose the news to the following. The Kiln Gang Navy wanted to take the British by surprise.

The British really hated it, and as long as the wind was good, their sailboats would come over and bombard the targets on the shore of Burma with the ship's artillery fire, and they would also hit and run. Waiting for the artillery of the kiln gang to rush over, Yang Fan went away. This is also the intelligence work of the British played a great role, their intelligence officers had already informed the British warships of the location of the artillery positions of the Yaogang people, so the British always launched surprise attacks in places without artillery cover. But this is also good, it is the place that the kiln gang people focus on defending, such as the dock and other places, have not been attacked. Now Jiang Wei directly put the infantry guns on the dock, as long as the British ships came under the cover of the fog, the infantry guns could fire against the British ships. However, the British did not take advantage of the dense fog to carry out a sneak attack.

There is Qin Peng in the south, and now Fan Chengkun is bringing people over again, whether it is Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, or Ouyang He, they don't worry about what happened over there.

Now the bigger move is Ningde's side.

After full preparations, Ningde mobilized a cavalry corps, an infantry corps, and a northwest frontier army to unify and start moving westward. This Northwest Frontier Army mainly carried out some key guards, and then guarded prisoners to repair roads. The police here can't see it. There are Zuo Liangyu and their captives here, as well as Annam captives, Burmese captives, and now Japanese captives.

The officers and men unanimously agreed that it was better to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. They are very obedient, never make trouble, can endure hardships, and are not lazy in their work. With the Japanese as an example, the officers and soldiers of Ningde demanded that other prisoners not be allowed to eat until they completed the workload of the Japanese prisoners, according to the workload completed by the Japanese prisoners. With the Japanese prisoners as an example, the progress of the project was much faster. Therefore, Ningde also made the food for the Japanese prisoners better.

Ningde also had a very important task in their westward expansion, that is, to find and annihilate the Western Mongols. Because, Jiang Zhu swept all the way from Mobei to the west, and did not annihilate many Western Mongolians. There are also many Western Mongolians, in the direction of Ningde West. However, the scouts sent out never found the shadow of the Western Mongols. This is what unsettles Ningde. If you know where your opponent is, with your own team, Ningde is not afraid of the Mongols at all, but these Mongols who come and go like the wind are likely to suddenly come out and bite you like hungry wolves when you are not paying attention.

Ningde's team moved west in two directions. One is from Loulan next to Lop Nur and westward along the Peacock River and Tarim River. The other route is from Hami and heading west to Turpan, Beshbali (Urumqi), and then west, the first goal is to reach Lake Balkhash.

Due to the railway in Loulan, the officials sent by Ningde got along well with the local people of all ethnic groups, and Ningde also rebuilt the dock here and built a shipyard. Mr. Lin Zongwei sent them a few technicians, and here they hired craftsmen of various ethnic groups who knew carpentry skills, and built many steamboats, mainly sand dredging boats to dredge rivers, and tugboats for transportation. The advantage of the railway is that the marine boilers of the kiln can be transported here. Due to the strong seasonal inflow of water from the Peacock River and the Tarim River, some rivers are not navigable when the water is dry, and these places need to be dredged with sand dredging boats. If the entire Tarim River can be navigable throughout the year except during the freezing period, then it will be easy to manage along the river.

Therefore, the number of troops on this road was not large, and they advanced along the river, cooperating with the river dredging along the way. At the same time, there must be people who take prisoners to build roads. At intervals, they would build a garrison in a place where people lived. Such a garrison is a combination of military and government. It is necessary to be responsible for the management of the people, but also for military defense. Jiang Jian knew that only with convenient transportation could it be possible to firmly put these places under management. In the future, when the conditions are ripe, the telephone and telegraph will be repaired here.

However, now Loulan is a commercial center for merchants of all ethnic groups. There are not only kiln shops here that provide a wealth of goods for everyone, but also people of all ethnic groups bring their own goods. Merchants and people are willing to come here to trade, very importantly, because the taxes are very small and very safe.

Jiang Jian knew that with the smooth flow of water and land transportation roads, Loulan would be more prosperous.

Ningde they still have one more way, that is, the construction of the railway from Hami to the Irtysh River. In order to build the railway from Hami to the Irtysh River as soon as possible, Ningde not only sent many troops of his own, but also sent many prisoners. This section of the road is also taken by road and railway. As the Japanese prisoners continued to be sent over, Ningde also communicated with Jiang Zhu and began to build a road along the Irtysh River together.

It is not as easy to build a ship on the Irtysh River as it is in Lop Nur, where the boilers and other large items used for shipbuilding are hoisted on the climbing plough made of red pine when they are frozen in winter, and then dragged by tractors along the ice and snow roads to the banks of the Irtysh River.

Ningde personally led the people who went directly to the west, and the main force was also here. Because out of Jiayuguan, it faces the Mongol Turpan Kingdom to the west, Yili Jiangli (Kazakhstan) to the west, and Yarkand (the Tarim River in the Tarim region crosses Qixuan) to the southwest. This is a force that once forced the Ming Dynasty to retreat again and again, but now it is different, the Ming Dynasty is going to counterattack. In fact, Ningde and their construction of the railway to Hami and Loulan have already occupied a large part of Turpan, and Turpan is no longer powerless to resist. Most of them, afraid that the Ming Dynasty would continue to go west, had already fled far west.

However, when the Mongols fled westward, all the Mongols were very united, and by this time they had already disrupted the divisions of Turpan, Yili, Yarkand, and other places, and they knew that they were now facing the danger of extinction. As they fled westward, they defeated all the forces that intercepted them on their way, killing what their people could and stealing everything they could. However, they soon encountered the great enemy Yuejibesu (Uzbeks).

The Uzbeks, as the Mongols knees, knew that they were very powerful, and they did not dare to oppose them before.

It turned out that the Yuan Empire had four khanates, and the Kipchak Khan State was one of the four Koreas, and they were mainly Turkic. At the same time that the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, the main branch of the Batu branch of the Kipchak Khanate was replaced by the emerging White Horde. Yuejibei, whose full name is Muhammad Yuejibe, is the ninth Khan of the Kipchak Khanate and the longest-reigning monarch of the Kipchak Khanate. The Uzbeks got their name from the month that separated. The Kipchak Khanate was completed under the rule of Yuejibe. The Mongols, as a minority, completed Turkization, replacing the traditional Mongolian code of Genghis Khan with the Shari'a (*** Shari). Moreover, his army was called the Uzbek Army, with more than 300,000 people, and the scale was quite strong, and the people there were called Uzbeks.

Because Yue is the belief of others in *** religion, they killed both lamas and shamans, and they have a special hatred for the Mongols. In the past, the Mongols also tried to stay away from them. But now it's different, they have suffered heavy losses in several confrontations with the Yaogang people, and they are fighting with the Yaogang people, and they are dead. In order to prevent the Kiln Gang people from killing them, they had to flee farther west to get away from the Kiln Gang people.

The moon that believes in the religion of *** is someone else, and the Mongols who believe in Buddhism will not be allowed to advance westward at all. However, the Mongols knew that if they did not flee far away as soon as possible, the kiln gang people behind did not know when they would kill them, and in order to survive, they had to fight with Yue, as long as they could seize a passage, they would rush over.

As a result, the Western Mongols fought several bloody battles with Yueji, and because Yueji's other forces were too many, the Mongols did not rush over with countless casualties.

However, a large number of Mongols were on the march, and the consumption was too great. Soon the Mongols will be overwhelmed. They sent a detachment of cavalry to reconnoiter the return to see if it was possible.

The team they attacked in Ningde to transport grain and grass was discovered during the reconnaissance. The sneak attack was a trick of the Mongols, and according to their observations, they soon found that although the grain transport team was prepared, it was still careless, and pulled the team out for a long time, giving them a chance to attack.

They didn't expect that the fighting power of the Yaogang people was really strong, and their sudden attack didn't take much advantage, killing and wounding many people, but they also seized some food. But what they brought back to the thousands of households who were waiting for news was almost desperate news. The families knew they could never go back. But to the west, the moon is that the others rely on the numerical advantage to block all directions.

Even more desperate news was that after the Mongols had managed to survive a winter, they learned that the Mongols in the north had been completely defeated and that the Yaogang had reached the Ural Mountains. Then came the news again, and the Kiln Gang people set out from Hami and chased after them.

The desperate Mongol leaders held a meeting, and they wanted to launch a surprise attack, taking the initiative to attack the unprepared Yaogang army that was advancing westward. Strive to delay the attack of the kiln people.

The Mongols did not dare to attack the Yaogang army of the brigade.

Ningde led the army all the way to the west, and the progress was very smooth. They passed through Turpan, Beshbali (Urumqi), and Yili Jiangli (Yining) without encountering a large number of Mongols. Just as they had rested for two days at Yining, set off again, and walked west along the Yilie River (Ili River) until noon, a cavalry regiment that had advanced as a vanguard encountered a surprise attack by tens of thousands of Mongol cavalry. But apart from their sudden attack, which shot down some of the Kiln Gang cavalry with their bows and arrows, they did not take advantage of it again, and the cavalry of the brigade and the Kiln Gang people came together, like water poured into the water-absorbing sand, and disappeared at once. How do they know that no matter how fast a horse and a saber are, they can't be faster than the bullets of an automatic rifle. None of the cavalry of the kiln gang slashed with them with a saber, and when they met, it was a point shot or a long point shot. Just when they came to entangle with the Yaogang people, the Yaogang cavalry behind them surrounded them, but fortunately, the Mongols reacted quickly and issued the order to retreat in time, so that most of the men and horses fled.

This fatal battle completely crushed the fighting spirit of the Mongols. They cannot advance or retreat, and they are in danger of all perdition if they do not surrender. They have reached the point where they need to choose whether to surrender to the Yaogang people or to the Yue, i.e., to the others.

Although they were ambushed and suffered some losses, they annihilated many Mongol cavalry. Ningde knew that this was probably the last force that the Western Mongols could muster. Through the interrogation of the captives, their situation was also understood. Ningde asked the disciples of the Great Living Buddha of Mongolia who came with him to follow the captives released and go to persuade the Western Mongolians to surrender.

Of course, the disciples of the Great Living Buddha are very willing to go and complete the orders given to him by the Great Living Buddha!

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.