As a modern man, he certainly knew that religious wars were more brutal and unnegotiable than any other war, and if it was true, as Chesan said, the Gelug monks hated this apostate far more than the Han people hated Lin Dan Khan. If the Ming court drove Lin Dan Khan out of the border, then Chesang was probably willing to let his dead clan be wiped out.

"Not bad!" Chesang nodded: "The poor monk doesn't hide it from your lordship, I went back this time to contact the Gelug sect departments, to wipe out Lin Dan Khan, and ask Lord Liu to hold this guy for a while, and then all the departments will arrive, and attack inside and outside!" Speaking of this, Chesan suddenly clasped his hands together and made a gesture to smash an invisible object, his usual face that was always smiling was already full of fanaticism at this time, which made Liu Cheng shudder.

Liu Cheng thought about it for a while, and felt that the two sides had a common enemy, and there was still a basis for cooperation, so he replied in a deep voice: "The two armies are facing each other, and the military aircraft is changing rapidly, and Liu can't answer you!" However, the idea of working together to deal with this Lin Dan Khan is the same. “

"That's enough!" Chesang stood up: "Time is pressing, the poor monk will leave, I wish General Liu a victory, and Lin Dan Khan will not return!" “

Looking at the back of Chesan leaving in a hurry, Liu Cheng suddenly felt a burst of excitement, if before this he was just a negligible little bug, then at this time he felt for the first time that he was strong enough to walk on the big chessboard at the end of the Ming Dynasty, although he could not be said to be a chess player, but at least it was a chess piece with considerable weight. I just don't know when my chess piece will be able to jump out of the chessboard, be promoted to a chess player, take the world as a chessboard, take thousands of troops and horses as chess pieces, and play a really big chess game.

Trilateral Governors.

"Losing one's teacher and humiliating one's life is the crime of sealing the territory, hey, this sentence is still heavier!" Hong Chengchou irritably crumpled the piece that only had a few lines written. Thrown to the ground, the blue brick floor of the study was already full of paper balls of different sizes, roughly looking like there were forty or fifty of them, all of which were invalidated by Hong Chengchou. Although he was not famous for his articles in the late Ming Dynasty, he was also tested by ten years of cold windows and three rounds of scientific fields. It's just that this piece of music is really difficult for Hong Chengchou, and he can't give political opponents a handle to attack him; And you can't give the Son of Heaven the impression that he shirks his responsibilities and is not brave enough to do things. Since the beginning of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Lin Dan Khan migrated to the grasslands west of the Yellow River, he entered the Kou once or twice in March, April and June. But these were not large-scale, at most only one or two thousand horsemen, and they were all repulsed by the Ming army in the border area, and did not go deeper. Hong Chengchou, who received the documents at that time, believed that Lin Dan Khan, who had been driven west of the Yellow River by the Later Jin, had already scattered his tribes and was unable to invade on a large scale, and that these small-scale Koubian were just spontaneous attacks by small tribes that had lost control, and there was no big problem, and the main focus was on suppressing the bandits. But in retrospect, these previous small-scale incursions were merely a rehearsal for a major offensive. Lin Dan Khan figured out the law of the Ming army's response through many previous attacks, and defeated Du Wenhuan, the general soldier of Ningxia Town, in one fell swoop. As the highest military commander of the Ming Dynasty in the northwest, Hong Chengchou is also to blame no matter what.

"Sir!" Yumo pushed the door in from the outside and saw the paper ball on the ground. He smiled slightly, walked to Hong Chengchou's side, put down the small bowl on the tray, and said in a low voice, "Eat some bird's nest first." Raise your mind and write again! ”

Hong Chengchou was also a little sleepy at this time, so he nodded and ate bird's nest. Yumo walked behind Hong Chengchou, and while beating his shoulder, he asked softly, "Master, are you worried about the matter of the chapter?" ”

Hong Chengchou didn't answer, just nodded slightly, Yumo smiled slightly: "Master, the villain said something that shouldn't be said, our Ming Dynasty has suffered a lot on the Liaodong Tartars, and there are not ten or six or seven auxiliary vassals, what are you compared to them?" It cannot be said that the Tartars in the east are Tartars, but the Tartars in the west are not. ”

Hong Chengchou was amused by Yumo's words, and put the bowl aside: "Look at what you said, Dongyu is Dongyu, and the trap is arbitrage, how can you generalize?" But you don't understand this when I tell you, so I just think it's nothing. ”

Yumo saw that Hong Chengchou put down the bowl, and the strength in his hand was a little stronger, and said with a smile: "These villains naturally don't understand, but there is one thing that villains understand better than others." “

"What's the matter?"

"Honest people can't do it, honest people have to suffer!" Yumo stopped, leaned on Hong Chengchou's body and whispered: "Master, it's true that you are the governor of the three sides, but since you took office, the thieves in Shaanxi have not stopped, and the Tartars have come to join in the fun, and the internal and external troubles have come together, and no one can stop it?" Is it fair that this board is going to hit you alone? “

"Huh!" Hong Chengchou had a wry smile on his face: "Yumo, Yumo, where is everything fair in this world?" “

"In my opinion, the biggest responsibility for this incident should be the general army of Ningxia Town, if he hadn't lost the battle, how could it have been like this? Sir, you're here to deal with the thieves, and you can't blame it. ”

Hong Chengchou didn't speak, but he couldn't help but move in his heart, he naturally knew that Yumo's words were seven or eight points of nonsense, Du Wenhuan used to be Yang He's cronies, and he kicked it to Ningxia Town, whether it was food or military salaries, it was very badly deducted, and it was okay to deal with a small group of Tartars with such a hungry army, and it was probably beyond his power to deal with Lin Dan Khan's large-scale invasion. What's more, Du Wenhuan also sent a lot of documents begging for money and food, but Hong Chengchou didn't take it seriously. But people are kind of animals who are generous to themselves and harsh to others, and the more Hong Chengchou thinks about it, the more he feels that Du Wenhuan is the biggest person responsible for the current situation, and he is just implicated by it. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but have a flash of inspiration in his mind: "Yumo, you go out first!" “

Yumo saw Hong Chengchou's face, if he didn't know that he had achieved his goal, he hurriedly packed up the dishes and retreated. Hong Chengchou dipped the brush on the inkstone, and wrote on the paper with a pen hanging his wrist: "Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier of Ningxia Town, does not know military aircraft, and fights in the wilderness, resulting in the ......humiliation of the officials and soldiers of Ningxia Mansion."

Ningxia Province.

The majestic and precipitous Helan Mountains stretch for more than 200 kilometers from south to north, and she is like a huge screen, blocking the cold wind blowing from the west. This section of the Yellow River flows almost from south to north, almost parallel to the Helan Mountains, forming a narrow plain between the Helan Mountains and the Yellow River, from which the Yellow River irrigates the land. The Helan Mountains and the Yellow River separate this narrow paradise from the fierce nomads of the deserts to the west and east, and since ancient times it has been a salient for the agrarian peoples to reach out to the grasslands and a springboard for nomadic herders to invade the agricultural world. After the Ming Dynasty controlled the place in the early years, two side walls were built at the north end of the Helan Mountain Range and the bottom end of the Yellow River without sealing, and two to four side walls were also built in Helan Mountain, such as Helan Pass, Suyukou, Sanguankou, Baisikou and other mountain passes, and it was forbidden to cut down trees near the mountain pass to form dense forests to prevent the herdsmen and cavalry from sneaking over. Ningxia" commented on Ningxia Prefecture: "Ningxia Town is based on Helan Mountain, which is surrounded by Helan Mountain and the Yellow River is in the southeast. The danger can be defended. The Yellow River surrounds its east, Helan towers its west, the northwest is fortified by mountains, and the southeast is surrounded by rivers."

After Liu Cheng left Huanxian, he led the army all the way to the north, after passing the Qingping Pass, he turned east into Yulinwei, then turned north to reach the side wall, and then advanced northwest along the side wall. The reason why Liu Cheng chose such a way around is very simple - the number of troops in his hands is too small: 1,000 6 infantry plus 600 cavalry is all his existing capital, even if Du Wenhuan's distress exaggerates the strength of Lin Dan Khan. If you break the 70,000 cavalry, there are 35,000, and if you want to win, unless Liu Cheng's subordinates are all Gundam. And if you choose this road, you can recruit and transfer the scattered border troops stationed in the border forts to your command, anyway, if Liu Cheng loses this battle, Lin Dan Khan's 70,000 cavalry will go south. These guards, scattered in dozens of fortresses, must have had no time to regroup. Whenever he arrived, he asked the general guarding the fort to pull out all the soldiers belonging to him, and put the best of them into the army, and remove the armor, weapons, and cattle that could be used. Each of the recruited soldiers was given five taels of silver. The settling-in allowance for two pieces of cloth, those soldiers owe two or three years of military salaries, and I don't know how long they haven't smelled silver. Morale was boosted. Anyway, these men along the border forts have basically dealt with Tartars for more than ten generations from their ancestors, and they can be described as "playing with treasure knives in the cradle, born with ten fingers holding spears!" Liu Cheng incorporated some of the auxiliaries into the four brigades, and the other part into seven lightly armed regiments (the armor was not enough), and by the time Liu Cheng arrived at Lingwu, he already had 4,000 infantry and more than 1,200 cavalry, more than doubled.

Lingwu is located at the root of this protrusion deep into the grasslands in the Hetao area, separated from the town of Ningxia by the Yellow River. The Tang Dynasty was Lingzhou, and the famous Shuofang Jiedu envoy was stationed in this place, under the jurisdiction of the three surrendered cities, which was an important base for the Tang Dynasty to operate the Western Regions. During the Anshi Rebellion, Li Heng, who was still the crown prince of Tang at that time, ascended the throne here, commanded the Shuofang elite soldiers to pacify the Anshi Rebellion and rebuild the Tang Dynasty, and Lingzhou became the largest military town in the Tang Dynasty at that time, and the political and military center of the Tang Dynasty during the counterinsurgency period, so throughout the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Lingzhou occupied a very special position in the political map of the Tang Dynasty. Later, the Northern Song Dynasty and Western Xia established themselves according to the Hetao, and Lingzhou and Yinzhou (Ningxia Prefecture), which was the capital of Western Xia at that time, were called the eastern and western capitals. Due to the slaughter of the Yuan Dynasty in the Western Xia, Lingwu was immediately defeated, and in the seventeenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River flooded the old city of Lingwu, and had to move to the site of the new city, and it was reduced to a place to guard thousands of households.

"Someone, some hot soup, and the shaver? Adults need to shave noodles! Du Gu shouted loudly outside the house, and Liu Chengzheng was shirtless, leaning on a wooden barrel on all fours, tickling comfortably. More than half a month of marching left a deep mark on his body, the most obvious is the many fleas floating on the water, these little guys living in the gaps of the armor can suck blood on Liu Cheng's body.

"Du Gu, is the shaver here, help Lao Tzu shave his hair and beard!" Liu Cheng shouted loudly while tickling.

"My lord, my beard is easy to say, but my hair is not good, and my body is affected by my parents!" The new shaver was a half-old man in his forties, and it was the first time he saw a second-grade master standing in front of him with his bare ass, and he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

"Shave well, otherwise how many fleas will you have with long hair? Besides, there is a war coming soon, and it's not convenient to keep your hair! Liu Cheng jumped out of the barrel drenched, Du Gu on the side hurriedly took a blanket and surrounded his boss, Liu Cheng sat down and knocked his head: "Don't talk nonsense, look at the reward, shave me clean, what is it to shave my head, Lord Ben used to be a monk before!" ”

"Monk?" The shaver shuddered, but a piece of silver cake (actually a silver coin) thrown by Du Gu made him bold, he took out the guy who was eating from his waist, grinded it twice on the belt, walked to Liu Cheng's side and whispered: "My lord, the villain will start, but don't blame the villain after shaving?" ”

"No blame, no blame! Hurry up, it's strange that it's not too itchy on horseback. How can I see the water but it is more itchy! ”

As a handful of hair fell from his head, Liu Cheng felt a lot lighter on his head, as if his brain was also much smarter, he secretly thought that Lin Dan Khan's subordinates were all cavalry, and he was mostly infantry, so it was better to have a barrier according to the river first, and not to rush to cross the river. Judging from his experience since he crossed over, Daming has nothing else, but in the "high wall" is definitely adhering to the legacy of Emperor Hongwu Gao, even if it is a mainland county town with only 20,000 or 30,000 households, it is also a female wall, an urn city, and a watchtower, like Ningxia Town, one of the nine sides of the town, is even more bloody, and all kinds of city defense equipment are complete, even if Liu Cheng stands on this side of the river and does nothing, watching Lin Dan Khan besiege, he can't gnaw it down for a year and a half.

"My lord, the guard asks to see you outside!" Du Gu said in a low voice.

"Oh, so soon, let him in!" As soon as Liu Cheng's words came out, he felt that it was wrong, he was afraid that he was a little rude to meet the lower officials, so he hurriedly called Du Gu to stop: "Wait, let him wait in my account for a while, it's not convenient for me here." ”

Du Gu guessed Liu Cheng's thoughts, and said with a smile: "My lord, you can know this person by looking at him, and he will definitely not neglect him." Without waiting for Liu Cheng to dissuade him, he ran out, and after a while, he led a young man in his early twenties back, kowtowed to Liu Cheng who was sitting in a chair, and said, "The villain sees General Liu!" (To be continued.) )

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