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That night, Chitate dispatched tens of thousands of troops, first using small boats and wooden rows into the river to drive piles, and then digging sand and soil to sink the river.

Overnight, the Black River was intercepted and the city was flooded with water, and the adobe wall of Dongsheng City collapsed under the impact of the river.

The 1,000 Qin troops in the city were either captured or scattered.

Chitate not only got eight cannons, but also two hundred Type 68 rifles that the Qin army had not long been equipped with, as well as thousands of earth-shattering thunderbolts.

Seeing that it was so easy to capture Dongsheng City, it was very rewarding. Chita was overjoyed, ignoring his wife Muttab by his side, hugged Yatu and kissed her wildly, and as soon as he tore off her clothes, he wanted to leap on his horse and whip to vent the passion in his heart.

Yatu pushed him away and said, "Great Khan, don't be like this, now is not the time, we have to cross the river quickly before Ma Yongzhen catches up." ”

Chitate was a little difficult to ride a tiger, looking at the spring light rippling on her chest, she swallowed a few times, and her eyes were on fire.

Yatu pulled his clothes to cover the spring light on his chest, and persuaded him: "The Great Khan is a great husband who stands up to the heavens and the earth, and it is our blessing that my sister and I can serve the Great Khan, as long as the Great Khan becomes the Great Khan of the whole world in the future, don't dislike me and my sister." ”

"No, the two princesses are my lucky stars, and I have a natural swear to Changsheng, if I dislike the two princesses, I will not die well." Chitat swore without hesitation, at least his current vow was sincere.

Muttab on the side had already accepted his fate, watched from the sidelines, said nothing, and even forced a flattering smile.

Now Yatu, not only is her husband obedient to her, but she also uses the original Jurchens as the backbone and controls half of the army, and her appeal even exceeds that of Chitat, which is not at all something that she Mutarb can move;

Yatu knew that Chitath liked the sense of accomplishment of having two princesses at the same time, and usually took his sister Muttab to wait with him when he was happy, and Muttab could only try to please the two of them. In short, Yatu is already lucky to be able to accommodate her.

After completing the oath, Chitat immediately took out the account according to Yatu's words, and commanded an army of 15,000 to quickly cross the Yellow River from Junzijin and enter Dongtao.

Generally speaking, the entire Yellow River "several" shaped Hetao area is bounded by the Great Wall, and the Ordos area northeast of the Great Wall is called the East Loop.

The Ordos steppe is called "ear" in Mongolian, which means "palace tent", and the people here served as Genghis Khan's guard all year round. In the Ming Dynasty, it was called "Yuan'er Dusi".

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the capital division belonged to the pasture land of the Tumut Department, and when the Great Qin captured the Hetao, it took advantage of the scattered sand of southern Mongolia and incorporated the eastern set into the rule of Xijing.

But there is no doubt that in such a short period of time, the area of Yuan'er Dusi was still dominated by nomadic Mongols and Hui people.

Yatu wanted to plot the land of the Hetao precisely because he saw that the population composition of this area was mostly non-Han Chinese, and it had not been under the rule of Great Qin for a long time, and the foundation of rule had not been consolidated. It's easy to steal.

Mao Jingyuan took a thousand Qin troops and chased them desperately, and when he arrived at Dongshengwei the next day, Oddat had already completed the river crossing. Seeing that Dongshengwei was washed away by the river, as well as the Qitate army on the west bank of the Yellow River, Mao Jingyuan's heart was very heavy, and what he was most worried about still happened.

Adjutant General Wu Xin asked anxiously, "General." What to do? ”

Mao Jingyuan gritted his teeth and said: "Let's go, let's rush to Montenegro and cross the river from there into the loop before the enemy arrives." ”

Mao Jingyuan gave an order. An army of 1,000 rushed away again.

The location of Montenegro is roughly located near the later city of Baotou, which was also an important ferry port for Mo Nan to enter the Hetao.

There are 500 Qin troops guarding the south bank of the ferry, if you can arrive before Chitate, crossing the river is not a problem, the key is time, I believe that Chitate will definitely go to seize this ferry, it depends on who is faster.

After entering the Hetao, Chitate divided his troops to capture various fortresses, and on the other hand, he used Yatu's strategy to show goodwill to the local Mongols, and did not hesitate to give away gold, silver, treasures and beauties, and tried his best to win them over.

Whoever did not want to be attached to it was slaughtered by bloody means, slaughtering all the men above the wheels, and plundering the women and their possessions.

Attached to the rich and women, if not attached, they have to die, in this case, the Mongols in the Dongtao region can be said to have surrendered to the wind, one after another, to the Chitate, enshrined as the Great Khan.

The Hetao guard will be Wen Cunxiao, stationed in Ningxia Fucheng.

Ningxia City was originally the location of Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, when Mongolian Genghis Khan sent troops to attack Western Xia 6 times, and it is recorded in the Yuan history that Genghis Khan died violently when attacking Western Xia. There is a legend in wild history that Genghis Khan was killed by the captured princess of Western Xia who bit off her genitals.

Regardless of whether the statement of Yeshi is true or not, after the Mongols conquered the Western Xia, they were indeed surprisingly ruthless, and completely wiped out the party members from the earth, and everything related to the Western Xia, except for a few bare royal tombs and a Haowang canal, nothing was left.

Ningxia City was also rebuilt in the early Ming Dynasty, the governor of the original Ming Dynasty, in the yamen, learned that the Chitate invaded the Dongtao, and the Mongols in the Hetao attached the thieves Wen Cunxiao, which can be described as a big shock.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of Gushi Khan of Qinghai and Tibet attacked Lanzhou, and in order to ensure that Lanzhou was not lost, half of the soldiers and horses of Hetao were sent to Lanzhou for reinforcements. The remaining strength of the entire Hetao was only 10,000;

If you exclude Dong Shengwei's thousand, it will only be nine thousand.

These 9,000 people are now scattered throughout the cities of the Loop. In the city of Ningxia, the remaining troops were only 2,000.

Wen Cunxiao felt that the matter was critical, so he sent people back to Xijing urgently to ask for help, and on the other hand, he tried to mobilize the troops scattered in various cities, and then crossed the Yellow River to the east and killed the east.

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Qin Mu took Sima An, Li Yuan, Gu Junen, Yu Shangyou, Yang Chao, the right attendant of the Ministry of Households, Wei Yuan, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, and others, and took a speedboat day and night to Dengzhou, northwest of Xiangyang, and landed in Dengzhou to change horses.

The imperial palace in Chang'an took a year to be roughly built, and it was much smaller than the imperial palace in Nanjing.

The three major halls of the previous dynasty have only six zhang and five pedestals, and they are roughly 21 meters high when converted into meters. It is half shorter than that of Nanjing Zichen Palace.

The three palaces of the Houting Court are also relatively small. In addition, there are only the six palaces in the east and west, as well as the pavilions and pavilions in the imperial garden.

For example, the 24 supervisors of the inner palace in Nanjing did not plan to build, and only built a row of chambers behind the east and west palaces as the residence of the eunuchs and palace maids.

The large area vacated was designated as an imperial garden, and some flowers and trees were planted, which made the whole Miyagi look extremely beautiful. Flowers and trees are everywhere, clear streams are murmuring, and lakes are sparkling.

Dong Xiaowan, who likes to live in seclusion, found that there was no solemn sùmu like the Nanjing palace group here, and he liked the birds and flowers in the back court as soon as he came. Also coming to Xijing this time are Li Xiangjun, Li Zhiyin, Xu Ruoshi, and the red lady.

The concubines brought a few, but unfortunately the battle situation did not make people worry, Qin Mu and his party had just entered Chang'an City, and before they could even breathe, they received a letter of help from Wen Cunxiao from Ningxia;

And at this time. The army led by Su Jin, Li Jiu, Gao Yigong, Hao Shaoqi, Hui Dengxiang, Liu Fangliang, and Zhao Jian arrived at Tongguan respectively.

Qin Mu, who was in the dust, had to immediately summon Sima An, Gu Junen and others in Wuying Palace, as well as the Shaanxi political envoy Nong Dianzhang, and discussed countermeasures according to the envoy Yu Chenglong and Qin Yiming, the general of Xijing Zhenguo.

Qin Mu glanced at the Agricultural Code and Yu Chenglong with a somewhat uncertain expression, and asked: "The two of you are in charge of Xijing, the government and the people, and I have high hopes, but now that Qi Tate has come, the people of Hetao have attached thieves. What do you two have to say? ”

"Minister, confess."

Nong Dianzhang and Yu Chenglong did not dare to defend themselves, and immediately knelt down to plead guilty.

Sima An said thoughtfully: "Your Majesty, the territory under the jurisdiction of Xijing is too large. The people's feelings are complicated, and it is inevitable that they are beyond the reach of the Hetao and Hexi, and the eastern set is mostly Mongolian tribes, and it has been included in our Great Qin rule for less than a year. It is not entirely to blame the Xijing officials for their lack of governance. ”

Listening to Sima An's words, Qin Mu couldn't help but chin his head, currently in Guanzhong, Hanzhong, northern Shaanxi, and Hetao. Hexi and Longyou are both under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi, the territory is too large, and many places are mixed with farming and nomadic people, which is not easy to govern.

Qin Mu thought about it and decided to divide Hetao, Longyou, and Hexi from Shaanxi Province.

Ningxia Province was set up in the Hetao area, and Ningxia Wei was changed to Yinchuan Prefecture, and the provincial capital was placed in Yinchuan.

Gansu Province was set up in Hexi and Longyou, and the provincial capital was located in Lanzhou.

This setting is very necessary, now the communication is backward, if you ask Chang'an for everything, the long distance will make it difficult to deal with many things in time.

After Qin Mu put forward this idea, Sima An and others praised it as good, so Qin Mu immediately issued an edict to implement it.

In addition, Liaodong was also divided into northern Zhili, and Liaoning Province was set up.

In this way, Daqin had four more provinces of Liaoning, Gansu, Ningxia and Luzon, from two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty to three capitals and sixteen provinces.

"Spread my will, and ordered Su Jin to lead 10,000 cavalry to speed up the journey and gallop to the aid of the Hetao."

"Whoa!"

"Nongqing, Su Jin, the 10,000 cavalry needs the grain and grass along the way, you should raise it immediately, there must be no mistake, let's be even."

"Obey." Nong Dianzhang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it sounded like the emperor didn't mean to ask them for the matter of the Hetao.

In the past two years, Shaanxi has been a rare good year in the past 20 or 30 years, and with the vigorous promotion of new crops such as square corn and sweet potatoes, Guanzhong has reaped a bumper grain harvest this year, and it is not a big problem to raise 10,000 troops of grain and grass.

This time, a total of 60,000 troops were transferred north from the Nanjing garrison, of which 10,000 were transferred to Datong to support Monan, and the remaining 50,000 were prepared for the expedition to Hexi.

Qin Mu continued: "You must also raise the grain and grass for the rest of the 40,000 troops. ”

Nongdianzhang, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly said with bitterness: "Qi Xiyi, at present, Xijing has a lot of grain and grass to support Hexi, and I am afraid that it will not last long with the output of Guanzhong alone." ”

"You don't have to worry about this, I know in my heart, Yang Qing, when will the grain and grass transferred from Jinghu and Sichuan arrive?"

"Your Majesty, the minister will send someone to urge again, so that the people can speed up the trip."

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PS: I went to the mobile reading base today and found that there were already 2 million clicks, which is more than half of the starting point. The number of monthly tickets is 322, ranking 11th in the historical military category, and the mobile reading base is not just a book at the starting point, so the results of the monthly pass are also stronger than those of the starting point.

It's just that I don't see any income

(To be continued......)