Chapter 43: Shangdu, Strategy, Balhu
It had been two hours since Jia Hui came out of Yun Yu's tent.
It's not a big deal, it's just that I took the schoolwork, gave me a bunch of military books for me to go back to, and then answered some things I didn't understand, and then drove myself away.
The entire Shangdu had become a large barracks, and after the Mongol Khan was driven away, the city became lively again.
200,000 sergeants, immigrants along the way, businessmen who followed the army, military prostitutes who followed...
A subtle flourish has been formed in this steppe.
This is actually the border of Daqi, the bridgehead of Daqi to sweep the grassland, and it is also a transit point for supplies.
I ate a little casually at the mutton shop opened by the garrison soldiers, and walked all the way back to the Ma army garrison.
Lift out your own horse lance and start your daily maintenance.
The terms of the peace talks have been very clear from that time, and the royal court of Mo Nan has already made up its mind to touch Daqi.
has already experienced a great split, and the power of the royal court is not as good as before, if you sit back and watch the Khalkha rebel and secede, let alone how to deal with the threats from the surrounding three parties, even your own people will also think about whether it is time to stand on their own.
Khalkha, the royal court must defeat him, even if he is attacked from the back.
In other words, the emperor has made the reputation of Daqi so bad that he didn't even talk about it.
"Dusi, I won't take it back at night." There was a herald from outside.
"Very good, let them go and rest quickly, and leave someone to report to me." Jia Hui put down the horse lance, got up and walked out.
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After defeating Nonohe, Mandulu had the posture of the first general of the Khan's court, and now, in conjunction with the Korqin tribe, he forced the Tushetu tribe to move north, and confronted the Chechen tribe, the Buryat tribe and the Tushetu tribe.
To the west, there are Yongxibu and Asut who are confronting Mobei's Saiyin Noyan and Zasaktu tribes.
Therefore, the four major tribes facing off against Mobei are not to worry about for the time being, and the first thing to solve is that the alliance of Chahar, Tumut, Ordos and some small tribes around is the opponent of the Qi army in this battle.
"So, the enemy has almost 150,000 men?" Jia Hui took the information that was not collected at night and looked at it.
"General Hui, Bilig Khan is ruthless this time, and has requisitioned nearly a million troops in Monan, you also know that these Muguls, giving him a knife can be a good cavalry, so 150,000 is still a relatively conservative number, if you add those old people who are not old enough, maybe it can exceed 200,000, and even when necessary, the women of the tribe will also participate in the war, then more!" The night does not answer.
"In total, it's still just three Chahars?"
"There are about 80,000 troops in the Chahar Division, and the eastern and western sides are facing off with Khalkha."
Jia Hui touched his chin.
"Got it, delay you for a while, and go with me to Dashuai." Jia Hui stood up.
"Don't delay, this is the duty of the lowly duty!"
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"Okay, I know, you go down and rest first!" Yun Yu read the information and said to Ye Buhui.
"Yes." I turned around and left at night, and after going out, I helped close the door intimately.
"What do you think?" Yun Yu asked.
Jia Hui thought for a moment.
"The west is too far away, and our army can't take care of it this time, so the main opponents this time are the royal court coalition army in the east and the Balhu and Horqin troops on the back."
"Well, go ahead." Yun Yu nodded and motioned for Jia Hui to continue.
"The nomads are still different from our Daqi, their armies are relatively free, and when necessary, anyone who can ride a horse and wield a sword can be regarded as a soldier.
But this is also a disadvantage of theirs, because it is a patchwork army, it can't match ours, not to mention, there are also grudges between their tribes.
They are not so much Mughals as they are a large alliance of nomadic tribes of the Chahars, Korqins or Balhus, for whom the tribe is their belonging, their true roots. As for the Khan Court, that's all it takes.
The Khan's court is strong, and it can bring them benefits, so it is naturally closely around the Khan's court, and it is the Mugul. But if the Khan's court is weak, then they are Ordos or Tumuts. ”
Tsk, there's something about this kid.
Yun Yu took a sip of tea and continued to ask.
"So what exactly are you going to do?"
"Let him come as many ways as he wants, I will only go all the way, gather all the horse troops, and chase Chahar!"
"What about the rest of the tribes?"
"Now that they are getting together, as long as they crush these hundreds of thousands of regular soldiers and solve the Khan Court, the rest is old and weak, and you have to be old to drive them away, after all, this Northern Expedition is mainly weakened.
These tribes in the west can't afford to lose too much, in case Oirat takes advantage of the situation to advance eastward, these tribes surrender to the enemy because of too big losses, but let Oirat grow, then this battle will not be fought in vain. ”
"The idea is okay, then, what about Khalkha?"
"Again, the west is to defend against Oirat, as long as the tribes in the east are disabled."
Although the Western Regions and the Plateau have been taken, the Dzungar tribe in the north is in full swing with the Rakshasas, according to the caravan from the west, the Turgots have also been beaten out of the real fire, and the war has entered the white heat, and when the war is over, no matter who the winner is, their eyes will be re-focused on this grassland of their ancestors.
Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the Mughal tribes in the west still have the strength to protect themselves after being weakened, and become a buffer zone and isolation zone between the Oirat and the Daqi sphere of influence.
If the tribes in the west are too weak and the winners attack the grassland, the weakened Monan tribes will definitely not be able to defeat them, then they may appear anywhere on the nine sides, doubling the defensive pressure on the north of Daqi.
In order to prevent the battle line from becoming too long, and to limit future wars to the Western Regions, the tribes in the west must have a certain strength.
"Why? Why do you attach so much importance to Oirat? Yun Yu was puzzled.
"When I was in the Western Regions, I fought with them, they were very strong, at least stronger than the Timurid and Heshute people, if the Dzungar wins, it will be fine, after all, I already know their approximate strength, but if they lose, the winner will not be weaker than him."
The most important thing is the name of Dzungar, the Dzungar in the previous life started at the end of the Ming Dynasty, reached its peak in the Yongzheng period, and fought with the Qing Dynasty for nearly a hundred years The last glory of the Mughal people.
"Okay, since you have made up your mind in your heart, let's arrange it!"
After Yun Yu finished speaking, he drove Jia Hui away.
The two purposes of this Northern Expedition were to complete the basic strategy, weaken the strength of Monan, and achieve a balance between Monan and Mobei. As long as this strategic goal is achieved, it can be played freely.
Another purpose is to select materials for the country, with the withering of the old commanders, Daqi urgently needs a new generation of commanders, and it seems that Jia Hui is doing a good job.
The rest of the people of the armies are a little worse, during the campaign to conquer the west that ended last year, the border towns also took turns to change the talents of the towns, they can command local wars under the overall control of the commander-in-chief, but it is beyond their ability to complete a war completely independently, fortunately, the border army of Daqi receives full salaries all the year round, and its combat effectiveness is bursting, and there are not many losses.
It can be said that one of the key points of this Northern Expedition is to cultivate Jia Hui's ability to command the army, with the tyrannical Qi army and Yun Yu's backing, Jia Hui only needs to do his best to command the battle.
In the next few days, Yun Yu completely delegated power to Jia Hui, from personnel transfer and material distribution, to pawn fights, eating overlord meals, and Jia Hui, who was tortured by the huge workload, was painful and happy.
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"Mandu Lu Huntaiji, the will of the Great Khan!" The cowardly Xue sent out by Bilig Khan to give the order finally arrived at the headquarters of the Balhu headquarters.
Although there were some twists and turns in the change of dynasty, Mandulu finally defeated Nuo Nuohe, and the various ministries of the Balhu tribe, Taiji, fulfilled their promise and divided some of the subordinates to Mandulu, plus the old Ministry, together formed the new Balhu headquarters.
"The minister Mandu Lu respectfully listens to the decree of the Great Khan of Bilig!" Mandulu took the lead and led the Taiji generals in the Great Tent to kneel to meet the Great Khan's holy decree.
Seeing everyone kneeling, Xue hurriedly opened the holy decree and read:
"In the power of immortality, in the protection of the great gospel, in the emperor's holy decree, in the Balhu Huuntai Ji Mandulu and the officers of each base, and the soldiers of each base.
The Decree of the Proclamation:
Emperor Genghis
Emperor Xue Chan
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In the holy decree of Emperor Bilige, Mandu Lu Hun Taiji took every base of officers and every base of soldiers, and came to Xilinhot within ten days.
By divine decree. ”
After reading it, Xue respectfully handed over the will of Bilig Khan to Mandulu, who stood up.
"Dare to ask Huntaiji, when are you leaving?" Timid Xue asked, bending over.
Mandulu led the two armies to defeat the combined forces of the three major Khalkha tribes, and forced the three to flee to the fishing sea under the deliberate propaganda of the Khan's court, which has spread throughout Monan, and was made the first battle of the Khan's court by the good deeds, and the cowardly Xue naturally worshiped Mandulu.
"Pack up your things and set off tomorrow, but the old man has any questions, and I hope the Khan envoy will answer them." Mandulu was a little puzzled, obviously the situation was in our favor, and after holding out for ten days and half a month, the three major divisions were almost time to surrender.
"The lower officials know everything, and they say everything!"
"Hehe, don't be nervous when the Khan makes the old man have only one question, why did the Great Khan transfer my Balhu Department to the south? Is Horqin going south too? Obviously holding on for a while, the Khalkha rebels are about to fall? Mandulu asked the question in his mind.
"This..."Cowardly Xue also knew what Mandulu wanted to ask, and if he received this will when the situation was good, he would have asked the same.
"Is there something unspeakable?"
"No, no, no, of course, it can be said that this is the case, the Great Khan did not let Horqin also go south, after all, Huntaiji, you also know that since that battle, the Horqin Department has not eased up.
The traitor Tu Mengken of Saiyin Nuoyan sent people to make a detour through the Great Xianbei Mountain, and passed through the Liao Land to beg the Emperor of Qi to send troops! The Great Khan was afraid that you would be distracted, so he didn't tell you that now they have arrived in Shangdu! Xue said quickly.
"What, the Qi people are sending troops again!!" Mandulu was shocked, and he couldn't prevent the Khalkha from making a detour from the north!
Memories buried deep in his heart poured into Mandulu's mind.
Since he was born, Abu had been respectful to every Qi merchant who came to his tribe, and he didn't understand why Abu, who was able to hunt tigers and fight hungry wolves, was so humble, and only felt that as the descendants of the Bal tigers, they shouldn't be like this.
When I was ten years old, I heard from the tribesmen that the Great Khan of Xizhan had returned! Mandulu, who grew up listening to the stories of Emperor Genghis and Emperor Xue Chan, was very excited, thinking that the returning Great Khan would definitely lead the tribes to glory once again, as the great Emperor Genghis did, and make the Qiren merchants who hated nostrils bow their heads.
But in the end, it backfired, and it was no longer those Qi businessmen with their nostrils facing to the sky and all kinds of good things that came to the tribe, but the Qi army wearing iron armor and having a hideous face!
He will never forget that desperate day.
When he was twelve years old, Abu went to see the great Sarujian Khan again, but this time it was different from usual, the uncles and brothers in the tribe, and all the people in the tribe followed Abu, only remembering that Abu told Ahamen over and over again that they must take care of their home, and when he returned, Ahamen also nodded with a serious face.
Heartless and coquettish to his father, he wanted Abu to bring him a new bow, Abu agreed with a smile, but he smiled and reluctantly.
Nearly a month later, Bored Lai was shooting rabbits and saw a nightmare scene that would make him live for the rest of his life.
A black curtain appeared on the hillside in the distance, like the waves of the Hulun River on the bank, slapping towards the home where he had grown up for 12 years.
All of a sudden, it was as if only the black waves were left in his world, and he froze there, feeling for the first time what death was.
But a familiar figure slammed into the black waves with a long gray-white arrow.
"Run! Mandulu, run away with your Eji! ”
It's Abu!
The embarrassed father came back with the uncles and brothers in the tribe, but the number was less than half of what they were before departure!
Seeing one uncle after another fall off his horse, one brother after another being pierced by spears, and even the mountain-like Abu was knocked off his horse, the black-armored knight with a spear in his hand pinned Abu to the ground.
The power poured back into the limbs.
He had never listened to Abu so much, jumped on his little white horse, and ran madly towards the tribe, and the Ahabs, who had already heard the sound, had gathered the uncles who had stayed behind, and rushed towards the black waves, and Eji frantically whipped his own ponies and several Ahabs of the same age, and fled towards the north......
Since then, every once in a while, the Qi people have organized men and horses to attack their homeland, from the age of twelve to forty, again and again......
"Huntaiji, Huntaiji?" Cowardly Xue looked at the stunned Mandulu, and shouted anxiously.
"Ah, I remembered something, and the Khan smiled."
He wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and smiled reluctantly.
"The Khan envoy is tired too, isn't he? I've got some time to pack my bags, so let's go down and take a break, right? After Mandulu finished speaking, he summoned a maid.
"Go down and rest with your sweat, remember, be careful!"
The maid promised and left with cowardice.
The generals who had been waiting for a long time hurriedly came over.
"Huntaiji, are you really going to support the Khan's Court? Aren't there already Tumut and Ordos over there? Why do you want us to go? Don't fight in the north? "A group of people, you and I asked Mandulu one by one.
"Okay, support must be supported, the territory is lost, and it will be fought back in the future, but if the people are gone, everything will be over! The Qi people are attacking, do you think we can stay out of it?
Have you forgotten what the Qi people did to us? Which of your families has no one died at the hands of the Qi people? Do you think that the three divisions of Chahar can stop the Qi people? ”
The atmosphere inside the big tent instantly became heavy.
"Okay, we don't have to go anyway, Sultan, you lead your subordinates to stay, and confront Khalkha with Korqin, and you, you, you too, stay together, this time I will take 40,000 people, and let Sultan take the remaining 20,000."
Sultan hurriedly got up and agreed.
Although the Balhu tribe had just experienced a split, with the war, it annexed some small tribes, and on the whole it was even much stronger than before the split, and the number of regular soldiers even reached 70,000.
10,000 people were left to guard the house, and 60,000 were taken away by Mandulu to open a film with Khalkha.
As for the Korqin Division, these descendants of Hesar Khan, as the main force of the Khan's court during the battle, fought with the Qi army in real fire, fought dozens of bloody battles, and suffered a great loss in strength.
At present, it is a tribe between medium and large tribes, and its strength is far superior to that of medium tribes, but it cannot be compared with a large tribe like the Balhu tribe, and can only gather 20,000 regular soldiers. This operation was only an auxiliary to the Mandulu operation.
"Since you have decided to raise troops and go south, let's go and prepare quickly." After speaking, he waved his hand to signal that it was time to leave, and the generals who were full of big tents understood and immediately returned to their respective troops.
The next day, under the leadership of Huntai Ji Mandulu, the neatly packed Balhu Department embarked on the journey again.