Hearing that Dashun's cavalry appeared around Qinghai Lake, Li Xianzhong couldn't help frowning.

originally thought that Li Zicheng's men and horses were only dominating in the Western Regions, but now they have all appeared near Qinghai Lake, which is obviously provoking himself.

However, the second child of his own family is really too disagreeable, and when the enemy situation is unknown, he only led 800 cavalry to go out to pursue.

After learning that the old handsome Xiong Tingbi had sent a large number of people to meet him, Li Xianzhong's hanging heart was immediately relaxed.

There are 50,000 soldiers and horses in Huaxia here, plus no less than 100,000 Mongolian troops who came to join the alliance, even if he lent Li Zicheng ten guts, he didn't dare to lead the main force to send him to death!

It was expected to be just a group of stragglers who came over to reconnoitre.

At this time, the 800 cavalry led by Li Shizu had already penetrated to the west of Qinghai Lake a hundred miles away after galloping continuously for a day and a night.

A young officer said: "Second Prince of Qiqi, the matter is really not so simple, the prisoner has confessed, the reason why the Dashun army ventured deep into the vicinity of Qinghai Lake this time is to capture Abdullah, the king of Yarkand Khan. ”

At this time, Zheng Sen, who was beside Li Shizu, said: "Abdullah must have heard that His Majesty had an alliance with the Northern Mongolian tribes in Qinghai, so he came to ask for help, and their destination must be our camp in the East Kol Temple. ”

Zheng Sen is the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong, and he has been staying with the Li Shizu brothers since he was five years old as a companion.

Don't look at him as not small, in fact, he is only 12 years old this year, even two years younger than Li Shizu.

The 800 horsemen brought out by Li Shizu this time were his own Yulinwei, and many of them were the sons of Huaxia Xungui.

Many of them were on the battlefield for the first time and had no combat experience.

However, most of these people are the sons of generals, who have received military training since childhood, and their military literacy is not bad.

Moreover, Li Xianzhong knew that this expedition was full of dangers, so he specially selected 400 people from his own personal guard battalion to protect Li Shizu.

Otherwise, there would be a group of pure recruits under their hands, and Li Shizu and Zheng Sen would not dare to take them to risk attacking.

This time, he attacked without authorization, and he would definitely be punished by his father when he went back, and now he can only hope to make great contributions so that he can redeem his crimes.

Li Shizu said: "Now that we know the destination of the other party, we must find Abdullah before the enemy does, and beat the Dashun army that pursues them. ”

These first-time Yu Linwei looked very excited.

Now that there are not many wars in Huaxia, this time it is a rare opportunity for them to use troops in the Western Regions.

They shouted in unison: "I am willing to listen to the orders of the second prince!" ”

Li Shizu and others analyzed that the north of Qinghai is the "Guanxi Seven Guards" of Huaxia, and the south is Wusizang.

Abdullah could never take the north and south roads, and could only take the original Dogansi Propaganda Division.

In fact, there were only a few roads, and they went all the way along the south bank of Qinghai Lake to the west without finding a target, so Abdullah must have taken the north shore of Qinghai Lake.

So soon they searched all the way to the north shore of Qinghai Lake.

It was not only Li Shizu and others who came to this judgment, but also Tian Jianxiu, who was ordered to arrest Abdullah.

Although the Great Shun Army finally took the Yarkand Khanate completely after several years of conquest, its rule was not stable.

I saw Tian Jianxiu say to a man in a white leather robe: "Respected King Abdullah Khan, Emperor Li Zicheng of Dashun is working with the Kazakh Khanate to deal with the Dzungaria, the sworn enemy of Yarkand, it is too dangerous for you to suddenly leave the Khanate at this time, so go back with me!" ”

Abdullah's former ruler was also a generation of heroes, and he led the Turpan army to Yarkand, once again unified the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and brought Hami into submission.

He appointed his younger brother Su Li Tang as Turpan Aqimu and directly administered Turpan.

He then sent troops to the Ili River Valley, defeated the Dzungar Khanate army in the Gongnais steppe, and regained control of the Ili River Valley and the area around Lake Balkhash. After a series of wars, the Yarkand Khanate once again united Tashkent and Fergan, infiltrating its own power into Central Asia.

It's a pity that Li Zicheng's appearance broke his great cause of Zhongxing.

Although on the surface Li Zicheng only annexed the Turpan Khanate in the east, Yarkand is now completely controlled by Li Zicheng.

It was only a matter of time before Li Zicheng tore off his disguise.

That's why he decided to venture to Qinghai and ask for help from the Chinese emperor Li Xianzhong.

It's a pity that he was caught up by Tian Jianxiu in the end.

Tian Jianxiu didn't embarrass the Khan king too much, after all, it was useful to keep him now, so he asked Abdullah to be taken to the tent and imprisoned.

A camp of thousands of people is still very conspicuous on the vast Qinghai Plateau.

Li Shizu and the others soon discovered their traces, and fortunately, they chased all the way to the west, and now Tian Jianxiu and the others are about to return to Yarkand.

The experienced veterans of the Yulin Battalion quickly and successfully solved the sentry posts on the periphery of the camp.

Suddenly, the Shun army felt the ground tremble, and then the cavalry of the Yulin battalion broke into their camp from all directions.

The cavalry slashed Dashun's soldiers and set fire to the tents in the camp.

Tian Jianxiu secretly said that it was not good, it must be the cavalry of Huaxia who discovered their traces.

The camp was in disarray, with fires and shouts everywhere.

Tian Jianxiu hurriedly asked Abdullah to be taken away, but the tent where Abdullah was held had already been lit, and Abdullah himself was nowhere to be found in the chaos.

In the dark night, Tian Jianxiu couldn't figure out the number of Huaxia troops, and felt that there were still thousands of people.

After all, now that he is in Qinghai, it is not his own territory, and he does not dare to stay longer.

So he hurriedly retreated to the Yarkand Khanate with hundreds of horsemen!

Just as they were glad they had escaped, they found hundreds of ironclad cavalry blocking their way.

This time, only 500 Yulin battalions were responsible for attacking the camp of the army.

The east side would encounter the main force of Huaxia, and Li Shizu had long expected that the defeated army would take this road, so he led 300 cavalry to intercept and kill them here.

Soon, the Huaxia army rode their horses and rushed towards the Dashun army.

The Dashun army, which was already disheartened, naturally could not withstand the surprise attack of the heavy cavalry, and was defeated in just a moment's effort.

There were more than 2,000 people in the invasion army that followed Tian Jianxiu to attack this time, and most of them were wiped out by the Yulin battalion in this battle, except for a small number of cavalry who took advantage of the chaos to escape.

This time, the Yulin battalion can be described as a complete victory, not only annihilating more than 2,000 enemies with fewer victories, but also capturing Li Zicheng's general Tian Jianxiu, as well as Abdullah, the king of Yarkand Khan.

As the news reached Daying, many generals in China and the successor of the Mongolian Great Khan praised the second prince for having the majesty of His Majesty.

Even Li Shizu himself couldn't help but be a little proud, although he violated the military order and sent troops without authorization this time, he won a lot, and he made a great contribution.

My father won't punish himself anymore, will he?

However, Li Xianzhong's face was pale, and he looked very angry.

He asked sharply: "Governor Xiong, according to my military regulations in Huaxia, what is the crime of leading troops to attack without the approval of the commander-in-chief?" ”

Xiong Tingbi knew that Li Xianzhong was going to be serious, so he said: "According to the law, you should be killed." However, the second prince has made a great contribution to this attack, and according to the practice in the army, he can redeem the merit for the crime! ”

If Li Shizu was not the second prince of Huaxia, but just an ordinary young general, he would happily announce that his merits and demerits were compensated, and he would even praise him.

But he is his own son, and if he can challenge the military order today with his status as a prince.

Then tomorrow he may continue to challenge his eldest brother's throne with this identity.

Today he tasted the sweetness of the rash advance of light troops, and if he continued to attack in this way in the future campaign, he would suffer a great loss sooner or later.

Therefore, Li Xianzhong will never condone him, which will harm him.

Li Xianzhong said: "The order was given by Li Shizu, and the people in the Yulin Camp are all acting according to orders, and I have forgiven your mistakes and allowed you to make credit for your crimes." ”

"But Li Shizu, as the second prince of China, despises military regulations, has no father and no king, even if he has merit, his evil deeds cannot be completely compensated."

"Originally, it should be beheaded according to the law, but it was quite successful this time, and the merits and demerits offset the 40 military sticks, and there must be no mistakes!"

As soon as he heard that he was going to beat the second prince with 40 military sticks, Xiong Tingbi immediately panicked.

On this expedition, Queen Hazia specially sent a lot of gifts to take care of the second prince herself.

He knew Li Xianzhong's temper, His Majesty has always governed the army very strictly, and it is absolutely impossible for these 40 military sticks to be pretentious.

He hurriedly said: "The second prince is not yet an adult, according to the rules of the Huaxia army, if a soldier under the age of 15 commits a mistake, the punishment can be reduced, and please let Your Majesty be punished lightly!" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "If it is an ordinary child, it is true that the punishment can be reduced if he is under the age of fifteen, but Li Shizu is the second prince of Huaxia, and I can't let people say that he is favoritism." ”

At this time, Zheng Sen, who was beside Li Shizu, hurriedly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the second prince's attack this time was all instigated by the last general, and the last general was willing to receive the 40 military sticks for the second prince!" ”

Li Xianzhong glanced at Zheng Sen and said: "He is the main general, you are the deputy general, even if he is instigated by Ling, he still has to bear the main responsibility!" ”

"Zheng Sen violated the military order and instigated the commander-in-chief to send troops without authorization, and according to the law, he should also receive 40 military sticks; However, considering that Zheng Sen is under the age of 15, it will be halved and 20 military sticks can be beaten! ”

Now the soldiers who enforce military law are in a dilemma, one is the second prince of the Chinese Empire, and the other is the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong, the Ryukyu Bo.

What's more critical is that the two are still children, one is 14 years old, and the other is only 12 years old, which is the time to grow up.

If you ask yourself to make a good fight, how should you explain it?

In order to prevent his subordinates from hiding their own secrets, Li Xianzhong personally supervised the sentence.

But fortunately, these people are also old fritters, who dares to fight to the death? If you really want to finish these 40 military sticks, even if the second prince is lucky not to die, it is estimated that he will have to be disabled.

As a stick fell, Li Shizu's pants soon oozed a large area of red.

Li Xianzhong's methods of these people are naturally clear, which is called "hurting the skin but not the bones".

Looking at the blood, in fact, the injury is not serious, and there will be no root cause.

But after all, it's his baby son, how can he not feel distressed?

That night, Li Xianzhong personally brought the medicine box to give medicine to Li Shizu.

Originally, Li Shizu was still a little aggrieved in his heart, although he violated the military order, but after all, he also made a great contribution.

It is really not fair for my father to punish himself like this.

But seeing Li Xianzhong personally come to apply medicine to himself, he knew that his father still felt sorry for him, so his heart became happy again.

Li Shizu said: "Father, the child disobeyed the military order and sent troops without authorization this time, although he should be punished, but the child was also carefully considered. The appearance of Dashun's cavalry in Qinghai itself was very abnormal, and something special must have happened. ”

"Now that Abdullah, the king of Yarkand Khan, has come to vote, and Li Zicheng is leading the main force to conquer the Mongolian Dzungar Department, its country must be empty, and it is a golden opportunity for us to send troops to recover the Western Regions!"

Li Xianzhong stroked Li Shizu's head and said: "My father has always had clear rewards and punishments, if you pacify the Yarkand Khanate this time, the first credit will be yours!" ”

The father and son chatted for a long time, but the next day, Li Xianzhong asked Ngawang Lobsang to take him back to Usizang to practice Buddhism on the grounds that the second prince was in a violent mood and needed to be forbidden.

At this time, the Chechen Khan, Tushetu Khan, and Zasaktu Khan of the three Mongolian tribes of Transkhalkha had also returned to Mobei.

According to Li Xianzhong's request, they sent troops to directly aid the Dzungar Khanate and dragged Li Zicheng and the Kazakh coalition army back.

Song Xiance also sent over the deployment maps of the Dashun army in Yarkand and Turpan.

It seems that Li Zicheng has really developed a lot of power in recent years, he led 30,000 people to the Western Regions, originally Li Xianzhong thought that Li Zicheng could maintain this scale is good.

Unexpectedly, with the help of Li Yan and Song Xiance, he actually had 80,000 troops in this part of the Western Regions.

Moreover, this time, Li Zicheng only led 20,000 horses to the north, and the main force in his country did not participate in the expedition!

Now that he is stationed in Hamiwei, it is impossible for Li Zicheng, no matter how stupid he is, not to guard against his sneak attack.

The so-called "main force is exhausted" seems to be just this Abdullah's argument that he wants to help him regain the Khan throne with his own hands.

The battle in the Western Regions was not so much about troops as it was about logistics.

His 50,000 soldiers and horses were able to quickly assemble in Xiningwei because they were all cavalry.

However, supplies for the conquest of the Western Regions are still on the way.

In the past few years, the focus of the Chinese Empire was either to conquer the south or to deal with the Japanese state, and indeed neglected the development of the northwest region.

There is a lack of a main road in the northwest region, and the road condition after Fengxiang Mansion is not even as good as that of the Monan area.

If he further invades the hinterland of the Western Regions at this time, the supply line will be farther and farther away.

Therefore, the Huaxia army did not attack Turpan, which was heavily garrisoned, but only used the advantage of cavalry to cut off Turpan's supplies.

This made Turpan's guard, Li Zicheng's imperial nephew Li Guo, a little incomprehensible.

Since ancient times, the Central Plains Dynasty's conquest of the Western Regions has paid attention to a quick battle.

However, the Huaxia army went the opposite way and started a war of attrition with Dashun.

Li Guo led 20,000 elite soldiers to garrison, and the food was enough to eat for half a year, and he was not worried about running out of food for a while.

Just when the Dashun army was puzzled by Huaxia's actions, Li Yan, who stayed in the capital, received an urgent report.

A partial division of Huaxia attacked the Tianshan South Road from Wusizang, and the Dashun army was caught off guard.

The important town of Khotan was lost, and now the Huaxia army is attacking the capital Shasha Che.

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