If you persist any longer, it can't exceed half a month at most, yes, if the Warat people on the periphery do not retreat and spare no food and grass, and are determined to kill the Ming army and continue the siege, it will be very fatal to Chu Fan, once they get out of the wall offensive, two thousand against more than 20,000, no matter how advanced the weapons are, it is very likely that they will all be destroyed.

Chu Fan's original plan was to destroy the main force of Heshuote, and the other two lairs were not near Ejina, so he didn't pose much threat to them, and as soon as Heshute was cold, they would naturally retreat, and they couldn't fight for their own lives for other people's hometowns.

But he never expected that the leader of Jungar, Delin, was a complete strategist.

The tribe of Dzungar is north of Heshut, and if Heshut is driven away, the next one is likely to be Dzungar, which is very clear to the forest, so he is not ready to give up Heshut.

There is such an awareness, it is rare among the Warat people, even after the glorious period of the Yuan Dynasty, the political literacy and strategic literacy of the Mongolian descendants have not improved much, as a tribal leader, Delin is very strategic and politically qualified, and in the entire Warat Alliance, the status is also very high, second only to the alliance leader and Shute.

However, one person with a strategy cannot save a selfish team, and one person's selfishness can drag down an entire alliance.

In fact, the idea of letting Heshuote support grain and grass, Zhezhe and Zhungeer to help Heshuote besiege the Ming army, is completely feasible, but, in Heshuote's view, he no longer has the strength to fight with the Ming army, and now even if he defeats the Ming army, the benefits are the other two, and he may not even be able to drink the soup, even if he retains Heshuote's territory, he can only follow Zhunger in the future, if Zhunger and Zhezhe equally divide the Ming army's magical firearms, he may not even be able to provoke Zhezhe in the future.

So, selfishness carried away the leader of Heshut, and he refused.

"How can I still have food and grass, when you came, you brought five days' rations, and I have been supplying them for the next ten days, and now I am still asked to support so many people, where can I still have the ability?"

In fact, according to the strength of Heshuote, he has 30,000 or 40,000 troops on weekdays, even if there are more than 20,000 people, he should be able to hold it for a month or two, after all, he is usually the closest to Daming, and he has the most robberies.

But he was reluctant, he left the grain and grass to recruit soldiers again, and he had the opportunity to make a comeback, these grains and grass were eaten by these two armies, and he had neither anyone nor food in the future, according to the urine nature of the leader of Zhezhe, he was only defeated once, and he threw himself into the arms of Jungger, and in the future, he made himself a poor ghost, and he was not allowed to be bullied to death?

However, on the other hand, the real problem is that if these two families withdraw their troops now, they may really face the need to get out of Ejina, and it is really difficult to choose.

After thinking about it for a long time, the leader of Heshuote promised to provide another ten days of grain and grass for Zhezhe and Zhunger, so that they could arrange for them to send grain and grass over and continue to besiege the Ming army.

However, a country still has a small ninety-nine between the armies, not to mention the alliance, the tribes have both cooperative relations and competitive relations, this is the Mongolian region since ancient times, today you are bigger and stronger, you are the Great Khan, tomorrow I will develop and grow, I will pull you off the horse, in short, it is very difficult to let everyone pay selflessly.

When they insisted on the seventh day, the situation gradually became clear, Zhezhe and Zhungeer were not ready to send food over at all, and made up their minds, on the tenth day of your mixed eating and drinking, the Ming army held on, we withdrew, the Ming army could not hold on, just fight, even if you and Shuo were lucky.

In the past seven days, except for a small handful of about a dozen Ming troops who broke through from the mountains on the south side, the rest of the Ming troops were still playing in the mud on the mountains, and there was no sign of lack of food or escape.

But just when everyone was anxious, someone came to give gifts again.

The grain transport team of the Ming Dynasty came.

You read that right, the pure grain transportation team, the grain transportation team without an escort, came from the Ganzhou side on the south side to the Ming army stronghold, and there were 30 carts of grain and grass.

The leaders of the three tribes who heard the scout's report suddenly became excited, and the Ming army really ran out of food.

But the Ming army is too careless, right? Just like that, there is no escort to send food? Aren't you afraid that we'll rob us halfway?

Don't be afraid, because this food delivery team stopped when it was still thirty miles away from the battlefield, rested in the middle of the mountain, and did not advance again.

What medicine is sold in a gourd?

Tuo Lin held a bowl of milk tea, looked at the white clouds in the sky, and fell into deep thought.

The commander of the Ming army is scheming, and he is no longer the group of fools under the leadership of the eunuchs during the Tumubao Change, and it is impossible to make such a low-end mistake, so what do they want to do?

Lead our army to rob food? Ambush us halfway?

However, according to the scouts, except for the 2,000 Ming troops on this mountain, there are no other troops in this generation, these people are surrounded by us on all sides, how can they ambush?

But soon he got the answer.

Thirty carts of grain and grass, no fake, no guards, no fake, but this is not to support the Ming army, it is given to Warat.

That night, the few thousand people left in Heshut were sleeping in the camp.

Since the last defeat, the Ming army inside can't come out, and they don't sneak attack, and the people outside are besieged all day long, and the leader of Heshuote expects that this point of people inside will not dare to break through, so the whole army has nothing to do, and everyone's vigilance is getting looser and looser.

But what I didn't expect was that the day and night defense, the house thief was difficult to prevent, but in the middle of the night in the camp of the third watch, there was a sudden sound of killing, but it was the Zhezhe Department who led the troops to attack Heshuote, and the battle quickly stopped, and the losses on both sides were not large, because the goal of the Zhezhe Department was very clear, not to kill and injure Heshuote soldiers but to be the leader.

When the envoy of the Zhezhe Department appeared in front of Chu Fan with the head of the leader of Heshuote, Chu Fan hurriedly dodged back: "Tut-tut, just kill it, what are you doing with this thing?" Strange and unlucky, take it away, take it away. ”

"Tell your chief, another thirty cartloads of good goods, and ask him to send someone there in three days to fetch them."

Why did the Zhezhebu turn against the water?

As the saying goes, no profit can not be early, when Chu Fan deliberately let a group of Warat people get the news of the grain and grass team, a letter was delivered to the head of the Zhezhe Tribe.

In the letter, Chu Fan promised to give 30 carts of grain and grass, as well as the gold, silver and jewelry carried in the grain and grass, to the Zhezhebu Department, and asked the Zhezhebu to pick it up fifty miles west of the place where the grain and grass team was found.

Zhezhe didn't believe that there was such a good thing, but I heard that there were a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in it, for a small tribe like him, he couldn't get much real money and silver by robbing a hundred times with a big tribe, and he didn't have the strength to go to the mainland alone to rob, and every time he was just a soup drinker.

Once there are so many gold, silver and jewelry, won't the opportunity to dominate the grassland come, and the opportunity to glorify the ancestors will come?

Of course, in the face of the enemy army, giving you such a big gift, a sane person should not believe it.

But when people are faced with great temptations, there is a high probability that they will not be mentally normal.

For example, each of us may have fantasized about winning the lottery, five million, and even planned how to spend it if we won five million.

I'm afraid that nine out of ten people have had this kind of dream.

Of course, you can't buy a lottery ticket and you can't win it, so you don't dream every day.

But once in a while, you dream of a set of numbers, and then someone tells you in a dream, this is the number of tomorrow's two-color ball, I believe, you will also buy a bet, try your luck, what if it happens?

It was with this mentality that the leader of the Zhezhe Department quietly sent a small team of people to check the location mentioned in the letter, and it didn't matter if they came back with thirty carts of things, the Zhezhe Department really believed that they had won five million and really won the jackpot.

There was not only grain and grass, but also tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Chu Fan, who had calculated that Zhezhe had already received the gift package, immediately sent a second letter.

Zhezhe is required to attack the Heshuo Special Department at night, not to seek the annihilation of the group, as long as the leader's head, on the other hand, Zhezhe can send the same amount of grain, grass and silver.

With the first gift package, Zhezhe had to believe that Chu Fan of the Ming Dynasty was really rich.

In order to win another five million, I was out of the way.

So there was a scene at night, the Zhezhe Department sneaked up on the Heshute Department, and the blow was also very accurate, and the leader of Heshuote was taken to the head and sent to the Ming army camp.

Heshuote is completely finished, the original 30,000 army, the remaining thousands of people who were beaten, were already disheartened, this time the leader was beheaded, and it was even more chaotic, the soldiers watched the fight, they couldn't fight, and there was almost no food left, what are you still doing here? Run, right? They packed up their salutes and fled in all directions.

The most inexplicable thing is the Jungger Department, the Ming army did not attack, they did not attack, why did Zhezhe and Heshuote fight?

Tuolin sent people to invite the leader of Zhezhe four times in a row, but he didn't see anyone, and the last time he received a message from him, Zhezhe stopped playing and went home.

Jungar is angry, saying that the good is shared with honor and disgrace? What about the siege that is said to be death? What about the coexistence of the promised alliances? This villain with no credit.

Of course, soon Jungger received the news that Zhezhe, a traitor, had attacked Heshuot, killed the leader, and gave the head to the Ming army.

Of course, Zhezhe's acceptance of bribes was not clear to Jungar.

By the time Delin sent troops to chase Zhezhe, the people had already gone far, and if they were brought back: it is best not to provoke the Ming army, and the Ming army will not come to fight other tribes again.

Delin is confused, why did the Ming army come? Just for a broken mountain?

Heshute perished, Zhezhe ran away, and there was no point in staying here any longer.

After collecting the remnants of Heshute's soldiers, Delin first returned to Heshuote's lair, as the women and children of Heshuot who had no leader or soldiers, they had no other choice but to follow the Jungar troops back to the depths of the desert.

Before leaving, Tuolin looked far to the south and let out a long sigh.

Without the watchful eye of the Warat people, Chu Fan could finally stretch out his arms, roll up his sleeves and work hard.

Five days after the Warat people walked, the labor army led by Lao Sun Tou arrived at the camp of the Ming army.

I heard that the daily salary of 800 wen, there is an endless stream of people who sign up for the Lao Sun Tou contractor team, if it weren't for the fact that it is really difficult to solve the problem of food and accommodation for too many people on the Gobi Desert, Chu Fan would be eager to get 100,000 people over.

In less than a month, you can already see that factories and dormitories have been built at the foot of this mountain, just like a modern factory.

Nickel ore is widely distributed in China, but nickel iron ore is unique here, and it is shallow, which is very convenient for mining and excavation.

If it weren't for such an important resource, Chu Fan wouldn't have had to go to great lengths to organize an army to grab the territory of the Warats.

Under the command of Chu Fan, the labor army was divided into two parts, one part was the mining team, and the other part was the steelmaking team.

The minerals here are first-class, with high nickel content and low iron content, and the resulting nickel-iron alloy is suitable for making weapons and guns.

Leaving behind a thousand firecrackers, Chu Fan returned to Ganzhou with Qin Hong on this day, preparing to pick up Zhang Yutong in Tianshui.

Before he left the gate of the cell, he heard someone outside the door running over in a hurry and shouting, "Lord Chu, go to the guard to receive the order." ”

The Divine Decree Again?

Is the emperor so concerned about me? In less than three months, the holy decree came again, could it be that the ministers were forcing the emperor to make a prince again? Walking all the way to the guard, Chu Fan pondered.

"Chu Fan took the order." A eunuch stood in the hall of the guard, and a group of officials knelt on both sides, leaving a large open space for Chu Fan in the middle.

Chu Fan knelt down, kowtowed three times, and said, "Minister, Chu Fan takes the order." ”

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor Zhao said, the war in Liaodong is urgent, and Chu Fan will go to Beijing on the same day without delay."

Hehe, lost again?

The emperor's family affairs can be put aside first, and if Liaodong is defeated again, it will be a big deal.

After putting down a bunch of drawings and repeatedly explaining to Lao Sun Tou and the missionary An Duodebi, Chu Fan hurriedly embarked on the road back to Beijing with Qin Hong.

It stands to reason that the Qi family army also has 100,000 elite soldiers, and it is led by Wu Weiyong, so it should not be defeated very badly, but what Wanli didn't expect was that a puppy who had been raised in the Northeast for many years turned into a white-eyed wolf at this critical moment, and he broke out.

Speaking of the person who raised this puppy, it was Li Rusong's father, General Li Chengliang.

Li Chengliang, born in the Jiajing period, is the hereditary commander of the Tielingwei, and it stands to reason that he is not a big official, but he has a characteristic, extremely ruthless.

In the early years, Li Chengliang's family was poor, although he was a hereditary official, but he didn't get mixed up with much of an official, and he was basically a fool when he was young and middle-aged, but since he was forty years old, he smashed the pot and sold iron to buy an official, and suddenly made a fortune.

At that time, the situation in Liaodong was even more chaotic than before the people of Cibo came in, and the Mongols, Jurchens, and Daming all had forces here, and more than a dozen tribes such as Duoyan and Taining of Mongolia fought back and forth in Liaodong, and there was no day to stop.

But everyone has a very good hobby, robbery.

And there is only one target for robbery, Da Ming.

It's not surprising to say that whoever has the money to rob whom.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty experienced several unreliable emperors in a row, and its military strength plummeted, and he only had the strength to fight back.

It's easy to scrape together some money, and the army has fought a battle in the past, lost a battle, fought once, and died a general, which has caused the court a headache, although the northern nomads have been the biggest unstable factor in China for thousands of years, but the situation at this time is very chaotic.

In the Longqing period, Mr. Li Chengliang was sent to Liaodong and served as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong.

Li Chengliang looked at the situation at that time, and his heart suddenly cooled.

Why is the situation chaotic, because there are too many tribes here, too fierce, not to mention anything else, just the deputy general read the name of the tribe to him, and he read it for half an hour. How can this be fought? That's the outcrop.

At that time, the strongest generation in Liaodong was the Mongolian barbarian tribe, and he took the lead every time he bullied the Ming army.

That's him, Li Chengliang immediately organized troops to visit this old friend of the Ming Dynasty, and sent the blessing of swords and guns.

It's also strange to say that when the Ming army came, it basically collapsed when it saw the barbarians, but Li Chengliang never lost, fighting dozens of battles large and small, and the barbarians lost dozens of games. Why? The reason is actually similar to Chu Fan's fight and Shuote's reasoning, dimensionality reduction.

When Li Chengliang came to Liaodong, he realized that he could not play cavalry with these nomads, after all, this was not our strong point.

In order to rectify the troops, Li Chengliang reduced the number of troops, improved the quality of equipment and the level of training, and the number of soldiers was fine, not too many, this is a famous saying that Li Chengliang often hangs on his lips.

Almost all of Li Chengliang's troops were equipped with firearms, and he invented the tactic of three groups of rotations.

In the face of firearms, cavalry with broadswords always suffers, but the Tuman is just a tribe of robbers and guerrillas, and they don't want to grab territory with the Ming Dynasty, so they don't have the courage of Heshuote, and charge against the scalp like Wara beating Chu Fan, but fight if they win, and try not to suffer losses if they can't win, with such an attitude, they neither avoided defeat nor destroyed the Ming army.

Li Chengliang is like this, and a big tribe has been tossed to the death of a few years.

Next, Li Chengliang was out of control, cleaned up the Mongolian tribes in Liaodong one by one, and completely drove them out of the northeast.

When Mongolia was beaten into a street rat, there was a nation that quietly rose, and that was the Jurchen.

The reason why the Jurchens were not beaten at that time was that they were not as tough as the Mongols, and the reason why the Jurchens were able to honestly do business with the Ming Dynasty was because they could not defeat the Mongols or win against the Ming Dynasty, which can be understood as surviving in the cracks.

The Jurchens had lived in Liaodong for generations, and at that time they were also divided into several tribes, similar to the alliance of Warat, which was both cooperative and competitive.

But they also have a common feature, that is, they were enshrined in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, these northern nomads are almost the same, when they can't beat the Ming Dynasty, they accept canonization, and come to cheat some money every year, which is called "tribute." ”