Chapter 8: See who can run faster!

The decision to let Duan Guoren lead 50,000 people to the west was not a decision made by the Yunzhao Group in a hurry.

Since Ngawang came to Guanzhong, Gushi Khan knew that the Tusi and the headmen on the snowy plateau would no longer be of the same mind as him, so he naturally sought support from his own people in the Western Regions.

Since the Mongol and Yuan empires lost their dominance in the Central Plains, their rule in the rest of the country has been severely damaged.

Many khanates disappeared completely, and only three of the more powerful ones were available.

They are Mobei Khalkha Mongolia, Monan Mongolia and Moxi Weirat Mongolia.

Among them, the Oirat Mongols are called Wara in the history books of the Ming Dynasty, they were very strong in the Yingzong period, and defeated the 500,000 army of the Ming Dynasty in the battle of Tumubao, and also captured Yingzong, and the soldiers once arrived in the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, this kind of prosperity was only a flash in the pan, and after the death of the first, Warat gradually declined.

After the Ming Dynasty was no longer able to conquer north, Monan Mongolia became stronger, and Oirat was forced to move westward, so it was called Moxi Mongolia.

There are four major tribes in Oirat Mongolia: the Dzungar tribe, the Heshute tribe, the Turghut tribe, and the Dulbert tribe, among which the Heshute tribe is its leader.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, that is, seven years ago, Huang Taiji defeated the Mongol Lin Dan Khan in Monan, obtained the jade seal of the Mongolian golden family, and ascended to the throne of the Mongolian Great Khan.

After that, all Mongol tribes claimed to be subordinate to the Qing Dynasty, including the Dzungar and Heshute tribes.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Lantian and the Manchu Qing Dynasty fought a bloody battle in Lantian City and Zhangjiakou, but the heaviest loss was in Monan Mongolia, which once made no trace of cattle and sheep on the grassland, and did not hear the songs of the shepherds.

This battle completely disrupted the original layout of the Mongols, because Lantian City was cut off from east and west, and also cut off the Manchus from the connection with the Dzungar tribe, after which, the Dzungar tribe quickly became stronger.

As the leader of the alliance, Gushi Khan of the Heshute tribe entered Qinghai and the area around the Hexi Corridor, and the Dzungar tribe began its own war with the Yarkand Khanate for the Western Regions.

The originally chaotic kingdoms of the Evil Western Regions were the opponents of the Dzungar tribe, so that the Dzungar tribe occupied the vast land from Beshbali and the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains in just six years.

At this time, Pope Ngawang of the Yellow Sect also began to open up trade with Lantian and tacitly agreed that Lantian occupied the salt lake.

The most important reason why he did this was that Tsangpa Khan, the ruler of the Karma Dynasty in Uszang, encircled the Sichuan-Tibetan Mufu Tusi and Khalkha Chosan Khan, who believed in the White Religion like him, and the Rinpungpa Tusi, who believed in the Bon religion, to fight against the Yellow Sect, which had a large popular base at that time.

With the help of Dzungaria, Gushi Khan quickly entered Qinghai, captured and killed Chotu Khan, and incorporated a large number of Tumut and Khalkha tribes in Qinghai.

However, the surge of Gushi Khan's power also made the relationship between him and Dzungar delicate.

Masters Ngawang and Lobsang Qujie, who had a keen political sense, immediately sent a letter to Gushi Khan, asking them to send troops to protect the Dharma.

Therefore, Gushi Khan, who coveted the rich cities in Tibet, first left a part of his troops in Qinghai to prevent the Dzungar tribe from obstructing them, and then immediately went south, eliminating the Renbangba Tusi in the Kham District, and then forced the Mufu forces back to Lijiang.

After completing the cutting off of the Karma allies, in order to paralyze the Zangpa Khan of Lhasa.

Gushi Khan first pretended to say that he was returning to Qinghai on Ngawang's orders, but suddenly attacked Lhasa halfway through.

Caught off guard, Zangpa Khan hurriedly retreated his army to the present-day Shigatse region, but was eventually captured and killed by Gushi Khan.

A vicious Zangba Khan is finished, but an even more ferocious Gushi Khan has reappeared......

Then Ngawang can only go and ask the even more violent Yun Zhao to deal with the fierce Gushi Khan!

That's politics!

Even if Gushi Khan received the support of Dzungaria, Yun Zhao at this time would still not easily start the western expedition.

In the political pattern of Lantian, there is not only long-distance friendship and close attack, but also the meaning of taking advantage of the enemy's internal strife to recuperate.

No matter from which point of view, what happened in the snowy plateau, and even in the Western Regions, is beneficial and harmless to Lantian.

It's a pity that the things that Yun Zhao knows are far from being comparable to Han Lingshan, Zhang Guozhu, Qian Shaoshao, and even the gentlemen of Yushan Academy.

For Yun Zhao, the Dzungar Department is just a disease of scabies, even if he is allowed to run rampant for a while, it will not hurt, as long as they dare to take the initiative to attack, for the Lantian army that is defending nearby, they are looking for death!

Obviously, he could happily wait for Lantian to unify the Central Plains, and then start to clean up these messy forces, but Yun Zhao knew painfully that at this time, the Eurasian continent was entering a golden age of horse racing.

Russia is engaged in the most spectacular competition for territorial expansion in human history.

If Yun Zhao gives up the western expedition this time, then, within ten years, Russia will expand its territory to the Pacific coast, and then continue to expand to Mongolia, Central Asia, and the Western Regions......

Yun Zhao, who has a mysterious obsession with land, can afford his land being invaded by others!!!

Duan Guoren's expedition to the west may be a little late, but it doesn't matter, it's not too late to start.

The snowy plateau can be left to Gushi Khan, but the Hexi Corridor must be opened.

I have to say that Ngawang still sees Yun Zhao very accurately!

He brought enough sincerity and goods to finally touch Yun Zhao's heart, and the 50,000 troops that did not belong to the regular order went to the Hexi Corridor, which was finally able to contain most of Gushi Khan's energy and prevent him from placing the Mongol Khan's court in Lhasa.

Xia Wanchun ran away, and told Duan Guoren that his master sent him to serve in the army...... Yun Zhao flew into a rage and sent someone to catch him, only to find that this bastard had already run away as the vanguard of the front.

Yun Zhao had no choice but to tell Duan Guoren not to let this kid be ruined in this tentative expedition to the west.

Duan Guoren was gone, and Yun Zhao forced himself not to pay attention to this army, the western expeditionary army with the silver factory as the initial base, and did not have to worry about their supplies and ordnance.

The big study room once again returned to calm, but everyone knew that from today onwards, Lantian had entered a new situation.

"Walk well, don't go backwards, you fart. The stock is very good-looking, I want to look at it for a while! ”

Liu Cheng was the first person to be scolded today, and the reason was that Yun Zhao couldn't get used to seeing this guy learn from eunuchs and walked backwards.

Liu Cheng quickly turned around and ran away in a hurry.

The secretaries and officials holding the documents outside the door saw that the boss had escaped in embarrassment, and one by one they whispered to Liucheng why the county was angry today.

"It's not that Xia Wanchun, that kid skipped class and went to participate in the Western Expedition, and the county is not at ease."

"Oh, if that's the case, I'm going to report the good news, and the county won't throw me away, right?"

"It's hard to say, the county lord has been a little moody recently, the last time I reported it was a damage report from Ying Tianfu, it stands to reason that it is a good thing, and the county lord still scolded me for being untidy."

"What is a good thing about the loss of Ying Tianfu, the officials of Ying Tianfu are all our people, and the people are also ours, they are unlucky, aren't they unlucky for the county?"

"It's over, the pig killed the two and a half lieutenant chiefs of Lantian City's agricultural reclamation, and sent a letter requesting that all the lieutenant chiefs sent out in the future must be trained by Yushan Academy.

Because of all kinds of merits, none of the guys who have become the chief are reliable, and they all regard themselves as officials, and they just eat more and occupy more, and there are those who are forced to die.

You said, how can you let me take such a document to the county for approval?

I put on my armor and go in? ”

When everyone was talking, they suddenly saw Qian Duoduo walking in from outside the gate with his daughter in his arms and carrying a food box, and the officials of these secretaries and supervisors immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and the person who could make the county Zun happy finally came.

Of course, the person who can make Yun Zhao happy is not Qian Duoduo, where does the old husband and wife get so much passion when they meet.

The natural one who can turn the spring breeze into rain is his daughter Yunxuan!

The girl sat at the dinner table and grabbed rice to eat, Yun Zhao ate with a bowl on the side, and said a word to the girl that no one could understand when she took a bite.

Every time Yun Qi came, Han Lingshan and they would hide far away.

The scene was warm, and the officials of the secretary and supervisor took the opportunity to line up to put the documents on Yun Zhao's desk, and then waited patiently outside the door for a reply.

"Husband's liver has been very hot recently, so he should drink some chrysanthemum tea to defeat the fire."

Qian Duoduo leaned over to Yun Zhao's mouth and sniffed, fanning the fresh air towards his nose, indicating that Yun Zhao's breath was not good.

As soon as Qian Duoduo said this, Yun Zhao immediately lost the mind to eat, and sighed: "Jinzhou has finally fallen, Zu Dashou still surrendered, this time it is really surrendered."

He not only surrendered, but also pitted Wu Sangui's 2,000 men and horses by the way. “

Qian Duoduo said with a smile: "Zu Dashou is Wu Sangui's uncle, these two thousand people may not have been killed, maybe it was Wu Sangui's aid because he was worried that his uncle's troops would not be enough." ”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "Hong Chengchou once said that he would give up the Ningjin defense line, but now it seems that he still hasn't been able to give up, Jinzhou is lost, I don't know why he still marches to Songshan, and he also puts on a state of fighting to the death with Jiannu." ”

As soon as the words fell, Qian Shaoshao appeared in front of Yun Zhao and said: "Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ming Military Department, sent Zhang Ruolin to Liaodong secretly!" ”

Yun Zhao picked up his daughter Yun Xuan with one hand, and grabbed the paperwork that Qian Shaoshao brought with the other hand to read.

Qian Shaoshao began to eat under the arrangement of his sister.

After reading the paperwork, Yun Zhao walked outside the big study with his daughter in his arms for a while, and when he returned to the study, he put his daughter on the bookcase and said to Han Lingshan, who had just come in after eating: "Is there any change in Hong Chengchou?" ”

Han Lingshan said: "The news came on February 16, Hong Chengchou was there as usual, someone secretly contacted Hong Chengchou to make him surrender, was killed by Hong Chengchou, and sent the head of the secret envoy and the deputy envoy to the capital to clarify his intentions. ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said, "It seems that Lao Hong can be trusted, so let's prepare to rescue him." ”

Han Lingshan said: "Do you think Hong Chengchou will lose the first battle in Songshan?"

This battle is different from the past, he has been preparing for half a year, before Xingshan, Jinzhou two contact field battles he fought very well, with 50,000 people to fight with Dolgon without seeing any signs of defeat.

Now, he has 80,000 soldiers and horses led by Wang Pu, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong and others as reinforcements, and the number has reached 130,000, will he really lose? ”

Yun Zhao smiled bitterly: "The large number of people fighting is an advantage, the problem is, it is not absolute, start the "Trapped Dragon Ascension" plan that you have formulated a long time ago!" ”

Han Lingshan frowned and said: "This is related to many people's secret identities, once the consequences are very serious, do you really think about it?" ”

Yun Zhao waved his hand and said, "Don't wait, let's start, I'm worried that our rescue is too late, and Lao Hong will surrender!" ”

Han Lingshan said: "Don't test him." ”

Yun Zhao's hand shook like a pu fan and said, "Forget it, human nature has never stood the test." ”