Chapter 82: The Struggle (I)

The new army was trained in accordance with the infantry tactics of the Kingdom of Sweden, ruled by Gustav II, a European army power, and cooperated with Liu Cheng's infantry drill code copied from the Military Training Department of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The performance of the Swedish army in the Thirty Years' War led to a new round of military reform in Europe. The two are intertwined, and the tactics of the new army have reached the world's highest level in terms of the current technical level, and this new army of the Eight Banners is bound to become the most powerful army of the Eight Banners in history.

The new army was expanded, and the first new army was given a name, as were the other four. At the same time as the expansion of the ranks, the adjustment of official posts was also natural, and the original pattern of commanding the army with the head of the general office was broken, and the old official titles such as the chief soldier and the guerrilla under the subordinates were also banned, so as to show the difference between the new army and the old army.

There are five new armies, the commander of each unit is called the president, the deputy commander is called the assistant commander, and the commanders at the town, battalion, team, and shed levels below are the commanders, the pipe bands, the team officers, and the shed commanders.

The Praetorian Guard remained unchanged, and it was still the former Minister of the General Office, Prince Heshuo Zheng, as the president, and the other four departments, Prince Heshuo Shin Doni, Prince Heshuo Xian, Prince Fushou and Dorobelle Tunqi also served as the presidents of the Gong Guard, Wuwei Zhongjun and Wuwei Left Army respectively. They are all the only remaining nobles with certain combat experience among the Manchurian nobles in this era of scarcity, and the co-commanders assigned to them and the subordinate commanders are also the generals and brave generals in the Eight Banners.

In comparison, Liu Cheng, who was born as a general in the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, is an outlier, and he can lead an army alone, and the reward is not the most important, the key is that the Manchu Qing Dynasty must rely on the Han military flag if he wants to survive now, Liu Cheng is a horse bone, and it is also to better play his talents.

It's just that after listening to the appointment of the co-commander and the composition of the army, Liu Magu realized that it was not as easy as he imagined to make greater progress.

"Lord Guerjia, please mention more in the future, let's be slaves, and training a strong army for the emperor is the most important thing."

"Well, that's what President Liu said. A slave is to know the duty of a slave. ”

Mu Lima replied coldly, turned around and walked in the direction of Aobai, and the leaders of the Manchuria and Mongolian Eight Banners of the Wuwei Right Army also followed Mu Lima, and the two leaders of the Eight Banners of the Han Army looked at Liu Cheng and then at Mu Lima, and they also leaned over with an uneasy face, but they hung Liu Cheng, the president, on the spot.

Gualja Mulima is still just a Manchurian Yellow Flag Meler Zhangjing, and there is a big gap in his position compared to Liu Cheng, who is also a Manchurian Yellow Flag Meler Zhangjing. However, this person has another identity, but he is the minister of the guard, the younger brother of Ao Bai, the first warrior of Manchuria, and Ao Bai is the diehard loyalist of Huang Taiji and the most trusted slave of Shunzhi. Looking closely, this co-ordinator named Deputy is actually a Damocles blade hanging above Liu Cheng's head!

"Dog Tartar."

scolded in his heart, but Liu Cheng's face was still the same color as usual. He knew very well that if he wanted to seize absolute control of this new army, it was not only this straight-line general like his brother who stood in the way, but there must be something else.

At this moment, Liu Cheng suddenly remembered that his unmarried wife, Kong Youde's daughter Kong Sizhen, seemed to have been trained by the queen mother. Once he thought of this, the expectation left by the supposedly good-looking Han personality was shattered in an instant, and the disgusting feeling made him want to vomit.

"Liu Bang also bowed down in front of Xiang Yu and made a small one, Cao Cao also cut his beard and abandoned his robe, even Chen Wen endured the incompetent Ming court and the shameless gentry for many years, so he has today's weather. They can do it, and I can do it! ”

Just like a drug, once you become addicted, it is difficult to quit. In fact, when Zierharang's army was defeated in Lishui, and the Manchu Qing was completely disabled by Chen Wen to this day, the internal explosion, Wu Sangui was the most likely to succeed, and Liu Cheng's success rate was far from being comparable to it. However, the majesty of Chen Wen's butterfly fan has begun to devour heaven and earth, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty stepped into the late Qing Dynasty two hundred years ahead of schedule.

After the battle of Weishui, the victors and onlookers are following their own rhythms to prepare for the final battle, and on the edge of the stage, the losers are also unwilling to stay away from the center of the stage, and always have to fight again.

A few months after the Battle of Weishui, the remnants of Wu Sangui's defeated army had already retreated to Gansu. After a fiasco, the infantry was basically lost, and the cavalry under his command was able to get rid of the pursuit of the cavalry of the new army, but it was also scattered in the process of constantly moving westward, and a number of them were scattered to the mountains along the way to occupy the mountains as the king, if it were not for the rout brought by Yang Shen from Yan'an Mansion as a supplement, Wu Sangui was afraid that he would even transfer to Gansu, and then gain a firm foothold there.

The new army withdrew, and the remaining Eight Banner Army and Green Battalion soldiers were still steadily recovering those prefectures and counties that were once occupied by Wu Sangui, and the pursuit of Wu Sangui's rout was not very urgent. But as the living space continues to shrink, the sense of suffocation has strangled Wu Sangui with a momentum that is more difficult to reverse.

The Qing army in Shaanxi was short and the pace of expansion was slow, and Wu Sangui was well aware that this was due to the financial difficulties of the Qing court. However, no matter how small the Qing army in Shaanxi is, it is much more than the defeated remnants of his army, not to mention that the military reserves of the two sides are far apart, and the morale is incomparable.

Wu Sangui did not have the ability to kill back to Shaanxi alone, because Liu Wenxiu had never heard from him, Wu Sangui did not know anything about the situation of the Yongli Imperial Court, and he did not consider making an appointment to fight Shaanxi again. In this case, there is only one road left for Wu Sangui, and that's it.

"Father-in-law, isn't that so, isn't that ......?"

After a fiasco, many of the cronies and generals under Wu Sangui were killed by the Qing army, and now they are only Yang Shen and Guo Zhuangtu who are still with him. Wu Sangui analyzed the situation and decided to stop the situation, but Guo Zhuangtu, who is usually responsible for handling internal affairs, was very worried about this, and could even be said to be worried.

"Virtuous son-in-law, with our current situation, it is nothing more than being slaughtered by others. If the court wins, we will die and there will be no place to bury, Chen Wen will win, let's go to the present, and the matter of trying to seize the great achievement of destroying the Qing Dynasty in front of him will never end well. For the sake of today, we still have to try to increase our strength, and this time, even if you can't ask for reinforcements, it's good to ask for some food and grass, it's better than not dying here. ”

raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, and even slaughtered the whole city, and Wu Sangui was already on the blacklist of the Qing court; Liu Wenxiu's appointment has not arrived, and it is really hard to say whether the Yongli Imperial Court has the intention of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight from the beginning; On Chen Wen's side, in order to curry favor with the Yongli Imperial Court when Wu Sangui raised his army, not only did he not contact Chen Wen, but he didn't even mention Chen Wen in the text, and he didn't dare to report any hope.

After Wu Sangui gained a firm foothold in Ganzhou and Suzhou, he entrusted the internal affairs and military affairs to Guo Zhuangtu and Yang Shen respectively, and took his own soldiers and a cavalry of hundreds of people all the way to the west to ask for assistance.

To the west of Gansu, there were no more powerful forces than the Jungar Nation in the north, the Yarkand Khanate in the south, and the Heshute Khanate in Qinghai and Tibet.

Wu Sangui learned from the merchants that the Heshute Khanate was forced south to Qinghai by the Dzungar tribe, and the other two important tribes of the Oirat Mongols, Turghut and Durbot, were also forced away by the Dzungar tribe. In recent years, with the death of the male lord Batur Huntaiji, although the internal wall of Zungar is in a brotherly wall, but under the mediation of the living Buddha with high prestige, we Yabandida, a full-scale civil war has not broken out, and the monk Huntaiji, who inherited the throne, also has a considerable advantage, but is much stronger than the Yarkand Khanate, which has been tossed by the two Islamic sects of the Montenegrin faction and the White Mountain faction in recent years.

The goal was set, and Wu Sangui set off for the west, precisely because of the great chaos in the northwest of the Han Dynasty, the monk of the Junggar Department visited the southeast of the Khanate and met Wu Sangui. It's just that on the day Wu Sangui arrived, the monk was still meeting with the local tribal elders, and the first person Wu Sangui saw was the sixth brother of the monk, Galdan Taiji.

"Galdan Taiji, who is alone as the king of Damingji, came to borrow troops from your ministry this time to serve the holy decree of the great emperor. In today's world, the Qing Dynasty is already in decline, but the main weak and the strong minister has become a trend. If your ministry is willing to borrow troops from our Ming Dynasty and take the lead in destroying the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court can suppress the powerful minister in the southeast, and then be willing to cede a province of Gansu as a reward, and support the claims of friendly countries to the Mongol tribes in southern and northern Mo. ”

"The sincerity of His Royal Highness King Ji, Ben Taiji has never doubted that your two countries are both big countries in the world, if we can coexist, it is better than letting a wild man like the Aixin Jueluo family who jumped out of nowhere and the rebellious minister and thief of your country be stronger."

Wu Sangui was full of sincerity, and Galdan also expressed a positive response to the cooperation. The two of them pushed the cup and changed the lamp, at least on the surface, they all looked like honest gentlemen, as for what they thought in their hearts, it was not easy to say.

As he was talking, the monk had returned to the big tent, and seeing that Galdan used his big tent to entertain Wu Sangui, who had come to borrow troops, his brows were furrowed, fleeting, but he did not escape Wu Sangui's eyes.

The relationship between the two brothers, Sangha and Galdan, may not be as good as the businessman said, Wu Sangui had this idea in his heart, and he secretly regretted this exercise, and hurriedly got up and saluted to Sangge - the first impression may not be good, but after the high-level ceremony, there is always the possibility of relying on interests to achieve the goal.

Unexpectedly, after listening to Wu Sangui's request, the monk and the guards around him whispered to Wu Sangui that he wanted to discuss with his brother Galdan, and Wu Sangui had to leave the big tent and have the monk's escort send him to the resting tent.

There were no outsiders, and the smile on the monk's face just now disappeared, and then he said to Galdan: "Brother, you should know that this person is a wolf cub who can't be raised, and he begged us for Zhunger, just out of necessity, how can there be any sincerity at all!" ”

Hearing this, Galdan chuckled disapprovingly, and had no respect for his elder brother: "Of course I know that his words are not credible, but as long as our Junggar Department enters the Han Land, he will have to be the pawn of our Junggar Department just like when he switched on and off the Yingjian Prefecture Department." I don't believe it, you haven't thought about capturing Dadu and rebuilding Dayuan? ”

If Kaldan is like this, the Sangha is also helpless. Not to mention that after the death of Batur Hunteiji, the other brothers competed with him for the throne, but Galdan supported him and did not waver, only saying that Galdan as the reincarnation of the third Wensa Huo Vrobzang Danzin Namtso, who had great influence in the Oirat Mongols, was enough to make the monks suppress their dissatisfaction with this arrogance.

"No, not only me, but also Father Khan didn't think so. Russia has always wanted to seek suzerainty over the Kazakh and Kyrgyz vassals of our Jungar, and even wants to force us to submit to him. ”

"The Russian capital is thousands of miles away, and they are nothing more than fortresses and garrisons on the border, so there is no need to worry about it at all. As long as Dadu can be captured and Dayuan can be rebuilt, all the Mongolian tribes will be gathered under the banner of our Zungar, do you still need to be afraid of those slaves of the Golden Horde at that time? ”

"Brother, don't forget about Chechnya and Drot Babatur, they are still eyeing each other. Even if it is as you think, they can sit down and cooperate with our brothers, but our Jungger Department is surnamed Zhuros, not the Golden Family, not to mention the Monan and Mobei tribes, even Heshute will not be convinced. ”

The appeal of the Golden Family to the Mongols is not worse than the appeal of the Tibetans to the Songtsen Gampo bloodline, and when the Mongolian Taishi also followed the bloodline of the Golden Family as the Great Khan, the Warat Department was very prosperous, and even defeated the army of the Ming Dynasty in Tumubao and captured the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. But when a war broke out with the Great Khan and established himself as Khan, Dengshi attracted the resistance of the Mongol tribes, and he was killed in just two years, and the Warat tribe also declined. And this is also the first Taishi, surnamed Yuros, who is the father of the first generation of Taiji of the Jungar Ministry.

At least in his opinion, the Aixin Jueluo family in the Jianzhou Department cannot be compared with the Zhuluo family who has been out of the Taishi, and it is still loyal to the various departments of Monan, which is completely due to strength.

Next, the two brothers broke out in the decline of the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Sangui came to borrow troops as a God-given opportunity to borrow troops from Jungar, and the strength of Jungger was not good, and it was still in the midst of a civil war, so it must not provoke the controversy of the Manchu Qing. It wasn't until the Sangha guard entered the tent with a bloodied head that the controversy came to an end.

"Huntaiji, that team of Han people has been solved."

"You!"

His chest rose and fell with his breathing, and he panted even more like a bull with a red cloth. Galdan stared at the monk, and he couldn't even say a whole sentence, but the monk stepped forward, grabbed Kaldan's arm, and said to him in a serious voice: "Brother, without this head, the Qing Dynasty will definitely let the various departments of Mo Nan and Mo Bei come over to make trouble, and then you and I will probably die in the hands of Chechnya." You have always been the wisest son of Father Khan, but the eagle still needs to learn how to flutter its wings before it can soar. ”

However, the Sangha's persuasion did not work, and Galdan broke free from the Sangha's big hand and walked away. At this moment, the only thing left in the big tent was the monk and the guard, and in addition, only Wu Sangui's head was still unwilling to watch all this happen.

"Huntaiji?"

"Don't worry, Galdan should go back to Lhasa. He has been a reincarnated spirit boy since he was a child, and he has been taught by the Fifth Dalai Lama and the Fourth Panchen Lama Boktor, and now he is too young to be arrogant and impetuous. This time when he went back, the two living Buddhas should be able to make him understand that in the face of the white calamity, the mountain of gold may not be more precious than a lamb. ”

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