Chapter 315: King of Ladakh, Sengnandje
But the palace of Guge was impregnable, the fort was well fed with food and weapons, and after a month of siege, Sengernaj was ready to retreat.
At this time, the younger brother of the great lama of Tri Tashi Zabad came up with various ways to persuade Tri Tashi Zabad to surrender, and Tri Tashi Zabad was seriously ill and felt embattled, so he had to agree to negotiate peace and call him a tribute, but after Tri Tashi Zabad walked out of the castle, Sangha Namgyal arrested him and his whole family and escorted him to Mangyu, the capital of Ladakh, and later secretly # executed Tri Tashi Zabad and his son.
Only then did the lamas realize that they had been deceived, but it was too late, and the army of the Ladakh dynasty occupied the entire territory of the Guge dynasty, and the Guge dynasty, which had been founded for 800 years, came to an end.
Sangha Namje ordered his son, Crown Prince Indabotilangu, to rule the Guge region.
What happened here was not known to the Ming court, and the focus of the Ming dynasty, in addition to the pass, was the reform within the imperial court.
After Mu Qiyuan entered the Ali area, all the small cities that were originally under the jurisdiction of the Second Army of Dan Zhen Wangpo had all surrendered.
He had no intention of attacking the Guge Dynasty and the Ladakh Dynasty, after all, they were different from Uszang, they were only vassals of the Ming Dynasty, not the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Mu Qiyuan's entry into Uszang this time was to quell the rebellion against the Han people in Uszang and destroy the rule of Dan Zhen Wangbo, there were basically no Han people in the territory of the Guge Dynasty and the Ladakh Dynasty, and their war had nothing to do with the Han people.
But Mu Qiyuan always felt a little unhappy when he heard that the Ladakh Dynasty had destroyed the Guge Dynasty and occupied all the territory of the Guge Dynasty.
The Ladakh Dynasty is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it is true that the Ming Dynasty cannot attack, but the Guge Dynasty is also a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has the obligation to protect its vassal state.
After discussing with several division commanders and staff officers, Mu Qiyuan decided to salute first and then soldiers. On the grounds of protecting the vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, they demanded that the Ladakh Dynasty withdraw its troops, and the land of the original Guge Dynasty was temporarily taken over by the Ming Dynasty.
If the army of the Ladakh dynasty retreated, the 19th Army would occupy all the territory of the former Guge dynasty, and it would be up to the imperial court to decide whether to restore the Guge dynasty in the future.
If the Ladakh Dynasty refuses to retreat, then Mu Qiyuan, in the name of the Guge Dynasty suzerain, sent troops to attack the army of Ladakh and drive them back to Ladakh, the 19th Army took the opportunity to occupy these areas, with the occupation of the army, these lands will be the territory of the Ming Dynasty sooner or later, and the 19th Army can also build more meritorious deeds for the Ming Dynasty to collect land and open up territory.
After Mu Qiyuan sent an envoy, Indaboti Langu did not agree with Mu Qiyuan's retreat at all and refused to withdraw the army to Ladakh.
Since the founding of the country, the Guge dynasty and the Ladakh dynasty have been mired in a long-term war, and the two sides have been feuding for more than 700 years. In case the Ming Dynasty supported the descendants of the Guge royal family to re-establish the country, wouldn't Ladakh have one more enemy?
Although the Ming Dynasty is the suzerainty of the Ladakh Dynasty and the Guge Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has never had any contact with the Ladakh Dynasty or the Guge Dynasty over the years, and it has little impact on Ladakh.
What Indaboti Langu did not take into account was that there was no garrison in the vicinity of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and now the army of the Ming Dynasty is coming.
After being rejected by Yingda Boti Langgu, Mu Qiyuan did not wait any longer, he personally led the 55th Division Liu Zhenyu to surround the city of Zaburang, where Yingda Botilang was stationed.
There are only 2,000 defenders in the city, in fact, the entire Guge Dynasty's original ruling area, only 4,000 Ladakh troops are stationed, Ladakh is a small country, and the territory is mountainous, sparsely populated, the country is only 8,000 troops, in order to consolidate the newly occupied land, this is stationed half of the country's army, once the people's hearts surrender, it must be withdrawn part of the army, after all, the capital Mangyu is the focus of defense.
Mu Qiyuan did not let the soldiers attack, although it was possible to capture Zha Bulet, but the casualties of the soldiers would be greater, and after he surrounded the four guns, he transported all ten artillery pieces to the relatively open east city gate.
Due to the direct surrender of the Second Army of Tan Zhen Wangpo in the Ali area, the Ming army has not fought a battle since entering the Ali area, and of course, no one has seen the power of the Ming army's artillery and flintlock guns.
Yingda Boti Langgu saw that the Ming army surrounded the gate on all sides, so he became afraid, so he sent people to Mangyu for help, and personally went to the head of the city to direct the defense.
In his mind, there is a fort in the city, easy to defend and difficult to attack, last year, the army of Ladakh attacked for a month, but did not overcome, and then the younger brother of the king of Guge persuaded him to surrender successfully, and the army of Ladakh seized the king of Guge who went out of the city and surrendered, and occupied Zhabu, how can he resist for half a month.
As long as the Ming army is blocked for half a month, the reinforcements from Ladakh will definitely come to reinforce it.
But Mu Qiyuan won't give him half a month.
Indaboti Langu did not know the direction of the Ming army's main attack until he saw the artillery that the Ming army had placed outside the eastern city.
He didn't know artillery, but when he patrolled the city from the four gates, the black muzzle of the artillery made him a little afraid, so he thought that the Ming army would launch the main attack from the east city gate for no reason.
While praying to the Buddha in his heart, Yingda Boti Langgu observed the Ming army outside the city with his spare eyes, and suddenly, he heard a series of roars, and after the roar, more than ten huge birds flew out of the Ming army's position.
What's even more peculiar is that the tail of the bird also drags long fiery red tail feathers.
"Could it be that these big birds will peck at the flesh of soldiers? Or is it specifically to peck at the eyes of soldiers? ”
Indaboti Langu was about to order the soldiers to release arrows to stop the big bird from falling at the top of the city, but it was too late, the big bird was too fast and had already swooped down from a low altitude.
"Not good." Although Indaboti Langu did not understand what the big bird was trying to do, he knew by feeling that the soldiers had absolutely no good fruit to eat.
He himself had no good fruit to eat.
A flowering bomb exploded right to the left of his body.
Indaboti Langu, the crown prince of Ladakh, didn't have time to leave any last words, so he and the guards on the left flew with flesh and blood, and could not find even a decent limb.
Flowering shells are still being fired.
The Guge Dynasty was originally a small country, the country was small and the people were weak, and even the city walls built were not strong, and the artillery only went through five rounds of firing, and the city walls that were not allowed collapsed with a hole of more than ten zhang, and the "U" shaped gap was just for the infantry to enter and exit.
"The 1901st Brigade, enter the city."
When the 1901st Brigade entered the city, there were no defenders in the gap, and I don't know whether it was killed by the flowering bomb or scared away by the flowering bomb.
The Ming army was divided into several search groups, one side searched inside the city, and the other city gates were opened on the other hand, and the Ming army outside the city entered the city.
Indaboti Langu was killed prematurely, and the defenders of the city were leaderless, and they were immediately thrown into chaos.
Originally, the defenders still wanted to retreat into the palace in the inner city, but the Ming army was advancing too fast, and no one expected that in less than half an hour, the city would be breached, and the defenders were not ready, so the Ming army followed outside the palace.
Under the threat of flintlock pistols, more than 1,000 of the 2,000 Ladakh soldiers surrendered, and the soldiers who refused to surrender were all shot by the Ming army, in fact, there were still some soldiers who wanted to surrender, but the Ming army either did not understand their meaning, or their movements were relatively slow, and before they could lay down their weapons, they were shot by the Ming army.
The Ming army began to appease the people in the city, because the Ladakh Dynasty was originally a feud of the Guge Dynasty, and the Guge Dynasty was newly destroyed, and the hearts of the people had not yet been attached to the Ladakh Dynasty, the fall of Indabo Tilangu and his army did not cause much repercussions in the city, but the Ming army that annihilated the Ladakhi army was more popular.
Mu Qiyuan divided his troops to clear the surrounding Tucheng, and Burang, Gar, Ritu and other places successively returned to the Ming army.
The entire Wusi-Tibet region and the ruling area of the original Guge Dynasty all surrendered to the 19th Army, and Mu Qiyuan did not know that in the history of later generations, all the territories of the Tibet Autonomous Region were completely subordinated to the Ming Dynasty.
On the one hand, Mu Qiyuan sent people to inform the Twentieth Army stationed in Lhasa and Shigatse, and on the other hand, he celebrated the end of the Uszang counterinsurgency in the city of Zhaburang.
But soon, Mu Qiyuan found out that he was celebrating too early.
When the king of Ladakh, Sengnangye, received a letter from his son asking for help in Mangyu City, he immediately gathered all the soldiers and horses of the whole country and approached Zaburang.
Senge Namgyal is ready for both, if the Ming does not hold him accountable for occupying the Guge Dynasty, he will order his son Indaboti Langgu to withdraw from the army, the Ming is too strong after all, he is unwilling to confront the Ming head-on, even if the Guge Dynasty is re-established under the support of the Ming Dynasty, but after last year's war and nearly a year of rule and plunder in Ladakh, it will be difficult to recover the past national strength for at least twenty years.
If the Ming Dynasty has to hold him accountable for occupying the Guge Dynasty, and even send troops to attack Ladakh, he will gather the country's soldiers and horses to fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty, Ladakh is too far away from the Ming Dynasty, and it is surrounded by high mountains, which is not suitable for large-scale mobilization of troops.
The cruel reality soon shattered Sengnamje's dreams, and the defeated soldiers who fled from the east told him that the crown prince Indaboti Langu had died under the artillery of the Ming army, which had occupied all the areas of the original Guge dynasty.
Sangha Namje went mad, and the death of the crown prince made him completely lose his mind, and he gritted his teeth and vowed: he must defeat the Ming army and retake the Guge dynasty.
"King, the Ming Dynasty is very powerful, and even the Dan Zhen Wangbo hidden before and after has been defeated by the Ming Dynasty, not to mention my little Ladakh." The supreme commander of the Ladakh army, Gagazanba, knew that Ladakh and the Ming were not an order of magnitude opponents, and they must not go to war directly, and only under the wings of the Ming could they accumulate strength and defend the country from the invasion of the surrounding small countries.
"Go away, you coward, I don't know how you are the military commander of Ladakh, this king doesn't need your help, this king will personally lead the army to battle."
Senganangye was confident in saying this, he was not only the king of Ladakh, but also the most famous military commander in Ladakh.