Chapter 22: Defeated by Dzungaria
As mentioned above, Yongzheng set up a quartermaster room and a military aircraft department behind, and the original motive was to support and directly support the military in the northwest.
This time the enemy is also "Galdan", but his name is Galdan Tsering, he is the son of Arabutan, the official document of the Qing Dynasty, he is called "Dzungar Taiji", and he himself gives himself the title of "Khan".
Readers may not know much about Dzungaria, but some Western geographers refer to northern Xinjiang as "Djungaria".
Originally, Dzungar was just one of the four Oirat in northern Xinjiang, the other three being Heshute, Turgot, and Dulbert. Dzungaria occupied the most fertile place there, the Ili area, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they directly drove the Turkuts from the vicinity of Tacheng and moved to the vicinity of the Volga River in Russia. As for the remaining two Oirat, they are also unable to be enemies of Dzungaria.
During the Kangxi period, the leader of Dzungaria was Galdan, and the word "Celing" was less than that of Galdan Celing in the Yongzheng period. Galdan was killed in Kangxi's three expeditions, and the reason why he committed suicide that year was because his nephew and enemy had already "surrendered" to Kangxi, so with the support of Kangxi, he attacked his hometown in Dzungaria, so that he could not go back after the defeat.
Arabutan is indeed "delusional", quite arrogant, he actually sent a general Tsering Dun Dob to be stationed in Lhasa, and this Tsering Dun Dob was later driven away by Yue Zhongqi.
It stands to reason that after suffering this big loss, he should also be restrained and restrained, but he is indeed worthy of the word "delusion", that is, he does not give up, and plans to instigate the leader of Qinghai and Shuote Ministry, Luo Buzang Danjin, to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. As a result, this Luo Buzang Danjin was beaten by Yue Zhongqi under the command of Nian Qianyao, and even abandoned his wife and children, dressed up as an old woman, and fled to Xinjiang to ask for the protection of Arabutan. Plotting to let Alabutan let him live in Yili, in order to protect him, Yongzheng asked him for Luobzang Danjin, asking for "extradition" back, but he refused, Yongzheng was furious, but had no choice but to give up.
Arabutan died of illness in the fifth year of Yongzheng, and the position of leader was inherited by his son Galdan Tsering. Yongzheng looked down on this young man and wanted to send troops to attack, but many ministers in the DPRK and China were against it, but Zhang Tingyu expressed his extreme approval.
Yongzheng mobilized 50,000 elite soldiers, handed over to Fu Erdan, and drove to Kobdo in Outer Mongolia to attack Dzungaria from the northwest road, Fu Erdan's name is the general of Jingbian, and he is a descendant of Fei Yingdong, the founding father and the fifth minister of Nurhachi.
Among the 50,000 elite soldiers given to him by Yongzheng, 6,000 were "soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division", 9,000 were "Che Cavalry Battalion Soldiers", 8,800 were soldiers from Fengtian and other places, and there were also soldiers from the banners of Horqin and Tumut.
Yongzheng is not a reckless soldier, but this time for Fu Erdan's expedition, he has made good preparations and extravagance, such as specially implementing the "conferral ceremony" for Fu Erdan in the Taihe Palace, and first went to the Taimiao Temple to worship and pray, and then went to Nanyuan to review. It can be seen that Yongzheng attaches great importance to this expedition.
Fu Erdan arrived at the foot of the Altai Mountains and wanted to capture Lobzang Danzin alive in one go. Yongzheng asked the Military Aircraft Department to give an order that he must not enter lightly, and recalled him to Beijing in the eighth year of Yongzheng with Yue Zhongqi, the "General of Ningyuan" stationed in Balikun, to "teach him face-to-face".
In June of the ninth year of Yongzheng, Fu Erdan captured a Dzungar spy, and this spy said that Galdan Tsering had sent 30,000 soldiers to attack Kobdo, and one of the generals was the son of Tsering Dundob, and this little Tseringdun Dob had arrived at a place called "Chahanhada".
When Fu Erdan heard the news, he was very excited, and on the day of June Gengzi, he set off for Chahanhada. When they came to the Yaksa River, they caught a Dzungar sentry, and the sentry said, "After crossing the river, Chahanhada will be there after three days' walk, and the soldiers and horses of the little Tseringdumb have not yet arrived, and there are about a thousand people." ”
Fu Erdan quickly crossed the river and walked for five or six days, but he still did not reach Chahanhada, but he caught another spy, and the spy said, "Two thousand Dzungar soldiers, in front of Fu Kecailing."
Fu Erdan immediately waved his army and attacked Fu Kecai Ridge, and when he encountered the Dzungar soldiers, the two armies fought hard, killing more than 400 soldiers, and the rest walked over the ridge.
Fu Erdan drove his army to the nearby Hebo to search for the surrounding Dzungar soldiers, but he was cut into several sections by tens of thousands of Dzungar soldiers and surrounded them individually. The division of troops is the most feared among the taboos of soldiers, the two armies killed for a total of three days, Fu Erdan's whole army was defeated, and after escaping from the encirclement, the soldiers were counted, and there were only about 2,000 people left.
The army included all the Manchurian elite at that time, which was exhausted after World War I.
Yongzheng cried a lot when he learned the battle report from the front, and after calming down, he sent an edict to Fu Erdan, "If Kobdo can't defend, you might as well retreat." For the sake of safety, Yongzheng actually mobilized a large number of soldiers to go to Kobdo for reinforcements at this time.
Yongzheng awarded Fu Erdan's name of Jingbian General to Xibao, the king of Shuncheng County, and asked Fu Erdan to take over the position of General Zhenwu of Xibao in the name of "Zhangzhenwu General Yin" and be under the command of Xibao.
In the second year, Dzungaria sent troops to attack Kobdo, and Xibao ordered Fu Erdan to lead 3,000 men to resist, but he suffered another defeat, Yongzheng forgave him and told him to continue to serve in front of the army.
In the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, someone committed a corruption case, Fu Erdan was implicated and escorted to Beijing, but Yongzheng soon died of illness, and did not have time to approve the execution of Fu Erdan, after Qianlong ascended the throne, Fu Erdan was released in the second year of Qianlong.
After the victory of that siege, the leader of Dzungaria, Galdan Tsering, attacked Khalkha again in the autumn of the same year, but was resisted by the king of Khalkha Doro and Kangxi's concubine named Tsering.
It should be reminded that this Tseling is the same Mongolian character as the Kalden Tsering, as well as the Tsering of Tsering Dundob and the Lesser Tsering Dundob.
Yongzheng was meritorious because of Celing's resistance, and named Celing the Prince of Heshuo.
In the second year, in the tenth year of Yongzheng, Galdan Tseling sent the little Tseling Dundob to lead 30,000 soldiers to attack Tseling, and met in Erdeni, Tseling won a big victory, and the little Tseling Dundob lost two-thirds of the soldiers and fled.
Because Xibao did not grasp the opportunity to move the soldiers who came to aid Tsering, although the little Tseling Dundob was defeated, he could still return to Dzungaria.
There was a Manchu general named Marseille, who happened to be pursuing the remnants of the younger Tseringdundob, and after receiving the letter of the younger Tseringdundob in advance, not only did he ignore it, but ordered the city gates to be closed while the enemy staggered across the border, so as not to allow his troops to move.
Encountering such a bastard general, the two young generals under his command were really angry, and braved the military order to take some soldiers out of the city and kill more than a thousand Dzungar soldiers.
Afterwards, Yongzheng learned that he immediately sent a messenger to the military camp to correct Marseille.
Sibao also lost his position as a general and a prince due to the delay in the military aircraft ahead.
In place of Xibao was Wang Fupeng of Pingjun. Nominally, it is the "Dingbian General".
After Fu Peng succeeded him, he had no record of success, and was recalled in the twelfth year of Yongzheng and succeeded by a cousin of Long Keduo, Qingfu. At this time, Yongzheng already wanted to negotiate peace with Galdan Tsering, and the other party also took advantage of the situation and called him a minister. As a result, the Altai Mountains were explicitly defined as the border between Dzungaria and Khalkha.