Unbeknownst to him, Rahman led a combined army of 50,000 Kokand and Bukhara, braved the wind and snow day and night, relied on tens of thousands of camels to transport supplies, and traveled hundreds of miles on the barren steppe in winter, and finally arrived at the next stop. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Gumo.

This belongs to the jurisdiction of Wensu Prefecture, the capital of Shannan Province, in the upper reaches of the Tarim River, the oasis area irrigated by the snow water of the Tianshan Mountains, there are a total of four cities, Gumo, Wensu, as well as Dashicheng in the north, Jinchuan in the east, and the first thing Rahman needs to face is Gumo City, he has already deduced the situation of the defenders here He did not waste his strength, attacking these heavily defended fortified castles is pure suicide. But his subordinates were all cavalry, and the reserves of the Ming army left the protection of the city wall and barbed wire to meet the same death, which means that the Ming army would not go out of the city unless it was crazy, just like he was stupid to take the initiative to attack the city.

Why do you do such a stupid thing?

He has 50,000 troops in hand, doesn't he say that there are not enough troops?

This place is a grassland and not a mountainous area, there is no other way to go except for the siege, it is all around a horse and a flat river, but it has become a small ditch in winter, there is no obstacle at all, he can walk as he likes. Immediately afterwards, as elsewhere, he left behind 5,000 cavalry and built a camp between Gumo and Jinchuan to contain the Ming army and protect the logistics line, and then his main force of 40,000 continued to attack Qiuzi in the east, bypassing this area.

At this time, his supplies were already very tight, from Kokand to here, his attack distance has exceeded thousands of miles, although the nomadic cavalry attack distance is long, and along the line except for the green ridge is a horse Pingchuan There is no danger, but the problem is that this season is not good, whether their war horses and camels or drive livestock used for food, they must need a lot of pasture, at this time the heavy snow covers the grassland and can not find so much to eat, the pack team transports supplies in a small amount of money, the nomadic cavalry's big killer is to feed the war, So far, he has not captured a single city, nor has he looted a grain of grain.

After a thousand-mile expedition, scarcity is inevitable.

Even before they reached Qiuzi, they had to kill camels to eat, which meant that they had to capture Qiuzi, where there were Banchao City and Qiuci City, and the food hoarded in these two cities was their hope.

However, Rahman did not know that at this time, in the distant Hakodate, a fellow who was soaking in a hot spring and enjoying the gentle soothing of dozens of beautiful women was lazily reaching out to take the pen in the hands of a military girl kneeling in front of him, and then signed his name on a document. The latter then stood up and withdrew, and a few minutes later radio waves were sent from the Vostok anchored in the port of Hakodate, and instantly crossed thousands of miles to Nanjing, where they were received by the radio of the General Staff of the Ming Army, and soon a radio wave reached Longcheng at the same speed, and the radio waves of Longcheng were also emitted immediately after. In this way, less than half an hour after the order of Hakodate was issued, in a city 700 miles away from Rahman, a Ming army officer rushed out of the room as fast as he could, and then in a dozen military camps around the city, hand-cranked sirens sounded fiercely, and at the same time, signal flares continued to shoot into the sky and explode.

Urgent assembly.

This is Pishan, in this lonely desert, on the oasis with a total area of only 1,000 square miles, those reserve and reserve militiamen who are bored to race horses and hunt on the winter grassland, look at the signal flares that explode in the sky, listen to the faint sirens, scream and jump on the war horses beside them, and then rush to their military camp as fast as possible, and the cavalry in the military camp is lining up and checking their weapons and ammunition, such as the spears of the forest, the dazzling sabers in this empty grassland, gradually merging into a torrent of iron horses.

Immediately afterwards, the torrent of Iron Riders began to surge forward.

This is an army of 50,000.

50,000 hussars.

And their goal is the Northwest.

After crossing a hundred miles of desert, there is the West Night City, and then to the northwest is Shule, and to the northeast is Weitou, and they will drown the 15,000 Kokand cavalry left there together with the nearly 50,000 militia and 4,000 Ming troops there, and completely close the gates of the Green Ridge.

Rahman, of course, would not have known this.

He's still marching towards Guizi.

"That's what it's called closing the door and beating the dog!"

Emperor Yang said proudly while lying in the hot spring.

"Your Majesty, I'll see you at Uncle Matsumae!"

A maid knelt down beside him and said.

"Change!"

His Majesty the Emperor stood up and said.

A group of maids hurriedly stepped forward, gently wiped his body clean, then put on a dragon robe, carefully served him to dress up, and then put on a look of imperial majesty, walked to the main hall of the palace and sat down, and soon the Ming Dynasty foreign domain Songqian Bo, that is, the original Waguo Songqian domain lord Yang Bangguang walked in under the guidance of the maid. It's just that his name is Yang Bangguang now, which he cried and shouted to change, so Emperor Yang also gave the surname directly, not only him, at this time, most of the foreign vassals were given the surname Yang, especially those who originally believed in the lord of Zhen changed their surname to Yang, after all, their previous surnames were seriously not aesthetic.

"Bow to your majesty!"

He said as he lay on the ground and saluted.

"Aiqing, I am a guest here, so I don't need to be so polite, give me a seat."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

At this time, Hokkaido has long been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the Matsumae family was named the earl of the outer domain, the territory includes the southern part of the Toshima Peninsula, in addition to the Muroran area, all other lands belong to the Dongning Prefecture of the Ming Heishui Province, as for the Ainu people are classified as subjects, the current development here is not very prosperous, only less than 20,000 people settle in this vast land, after all, there is nothing good in Hokkaido, although there are coal mines, but those few small coal mines are not in the eyes of those capitalists, That is, the Hokkaido fishing grounds also attract some engaged in canned food processing.

Because synthetic ammonia technology has not yet begun to be applied, freon is even more distant, so the refrigeration equipment is still very high-end, and the aquatic refrigeration industry has not yet developed.

Yang Bangguang got up and sat down on the stool with half a pi share.

"What's the matter with Aiqing?"

Yang Feng asked pleasantly.

Yang Bangguang hurriedly got up.

"Sit and talk, sit and talk!"

Yang Feng said.

"Thank you, Lord Long."

Yang Bangguang said gratefully: "Your Majesty, Tokugawa Yoshimune, the general of the Japanese State of Conquering the Emperor, sent an envoy to the minister, requesting to meet His Majesty and attach him as a vassal, and the minister asked His Majesty to make a holy judgment for it. ”

"Tokugawa Yoshimune?"

Yang Feng groaned.

This is the first time that the Tokugawa family has requested to be attached as a minister, and the Japanese country has been plagued by him for more than 20 years, and the three Japanese countries have been juxtaposed for many years, and the pirate ships of those Ming slave traders are like dolphins next to the sardines, rushing ashore to play a game of abduction, plus fleeing and selling themselves, so far the total number of Japanese slaves in the Ming Dynasty has exceeded four million, both men and women, and the total population of the three Japanese countries is estimated to be more than 10 million, that is to say, less than 30 years, The country has lost half of its population.

"He's sincere, but if he wants to attach it, what will he do with that hypocrite? Then there's faith, and their Shinto religion is xie. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, their hypocrite has no power, whether it is to kill or abolish it is just a word, as for the faith, since they have asked for it to be attached, of course they are also going to convert to the Holy Religion, and then the Shinto Religion is actually derived from our Ming orthodoxy, but the ignorance of the foolish people and the confusion of those monks in black and white, and finally took the wrong path, and now the conversion to the Holy Religion is also a sudden awakening, in fact, as far as the minister knows, many people under the rule of Tokugawa have understood the orthodoxy, and Tokugawa Yoshimune also built a shrine in Edo not long ago, He invited the priests of our Ming Dynasty to preach, and he and his family all converted to the Holy Religion. ”

Yang Bangguang said.

The Matsumae family and the Tokugawa family have always had a close relationship, and now Yang Bangguang really wants to help his old friend improve.

"In this way, then announce the messenger, I will let the cabinet and Taichang Temple send people to their territories to investigate, if it is indeed sincere, then I am also very happy, there is no class, what is wrong with the Japanese people, the Japanese people are also people!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

That's it, the Tokugawa family is not the entire Wakoku, the Tokugawa family now only controls the central part of the Wakoku, that is, from Ibaraki Niigata to the south to Nagoya, Shikoku Island also voted for the Shimazu family not long ago, otherwise Tokugawa Yoshimune would not cry and shout and beg Daming to accept him, because the Shimazu family and the Date family are said to have discussed, and the two north and south work together to divide his territory, and he is desperate.

Although accepting him meant that those slave traders could not hunt slaves on his territory at will, it would not affect the supply of slaves to the Ming Dynasty.

Because the attack to the west will bring more slaves, for example, Central Asia will soon begin, and the other is that those pirates can also be transferred to the land to develop new resources, such as hiring the increasingly unaffordable samurai of the Tokugawa family to join the slave hunting team, and use the Tokugawa family's territory as a base to capture people on the north and south territories. In fact, the Matsumae family has often done this work over the years, and his Matsumae Castle is the largest slave trading center in this area, because Hakodate has a military base of the Ming Dynasty, and although the Date family knows that the pirates who plague their coastal areas are all running from Matsumae Castle, they can only swallow their anger.

In this way, the matter of the Tokugawa family returning to the Ming Dynasty was basically decided, and then Yang Bangguang went to bring the envoy to the audience, and after the audience, the Ming officials stationed in Matsumae sent a report to the cabinet, and the cabinet and the Taichang Temple sent an inspection team to investigate, mainly to supervise the Tokugawa family to deal with the emperor's family and those temples, how to deal with this depends on his filial piety, anyway, if he doesn't handle it well, if he doesn't pass the inspection, he can't accept it, and if he can't accept it, he won't be qualified to join the Ming, in short, he will look at the rest himself.

As for Emperor Yang, he continued to lie in Hakodate and soak in the hot springs.

His next stop is Vladivostok, and then the next stop is Sakhalin Island, and then the next stop is to go to the Arctic Circle, at this time no matter where it is still frozen, he set off so early, is to go to Hokkaido to soak in hot springs, the current Emperor His Majesty is mainly to enjoy life, most of the government affairs have been ignored, except for foreign aggression, there is almost nothing he is willing to worry about, and even the interviews of local officials he threw to the prince when the prince became an adult.

And just as he was soaking in the hot springs and playing in the wine pool and meat forest, Rahman's sky fell.

"What did you say?"

The Great Khan of Kokand roared around the messenger's neck.

"Great, Great Khan, our spies in West Night City have reported that tens of thousands of Ming cavalry suddenly appeared, and they are killing Shule and Weitou in two ways."

The messenger said tremblingly.

"Tens of thousands of cavalry? Did they come out of the desert? ”

Rahman roared.

"Just, they came out of the desert, they came from the desert south of the western night."

The messenger said with a sad face.

Rahman pushed him away, and the whole person was stupid there, it must not have come out of the desert, it was hidden in Pishan or Khotan before, the former and the West Night are separated by a desert of more than a hundred miles, it is impossible for his scouts to go there, and even if they go, it is impossible to pass the patrols of the Ming army on the periphery of Pishan alive, that is to say, they have already laid a trap, that is, they deliberately made a false appearance that they could only hide in the castle because of insufficient troops, and then lure themselves to go deeper, and then cut off the supply line, Trap yourself inside.

This is a huge trap.

But what does he do now?

What could he do?

It took several days for the messenger to arrive here, only three hundred miles from the west night to Shule, and the cavalry advanced at full speed for only three or four days, and I am afraid that at this time he had already engaged the army that he had left behind in the first two places of Shule, tens of thousands of cavalry, and tens of thousands of infantry in the city, and a total of 15,000 cavalry to beat him, which was a complete siege.

And what about him?

There are still hundreds of miles away from Weitou, not to mention that there are Ming troops in Gumo, Wensu and other places in the middle, even without these people, it is impossible to rush back before the 15,000 cavalry is annihilated, and once the 15,000 cavalry is annihilated, his logistical supplies will be completely cut off, and his way home will also be completely cut off.

Now the only choice is to return, at any cost and the Ming cavalry in Shule decisive battle, as for the future can only be resigned to fate, defeat the Ming army he fled back to Kokand through the Green Ridge, defeated he was trapped here to die, fortunately he still has a large number of horses and camels to slaughter and eat.

"Quick, the herald turned around and retreated, and returned to Gumo at full speed, and what about that slave, I'm going to skin him!"

Rahman roared.

That's when he remembered the dead place.

At this moment, in a tent not far from him, the dog was kneeling reverently before a sun and moon drawn in his own blood, where he was chanting the verses of the oracle, and behind him there were already chaotic footsteps and angry curses.

But he didn't seem to hear.

At this moment a beautiful picture appeared in front of him, in the golden palace surrounded by auspicious clouds, the green space with flowers stretched underneath, the clear river flowing, the meadow was full of seemingly endless delicacies, and countless beautiful fairies were laughing and waving to him.

"Wonderland, I'm coming!"

He muttered to himself.

At the same time, a split bone in his hand seemed to pierce his heart like a sharp blade.