Wanli 1592

Chapter 1350
The Northwest Corps is eager to fight, and Xiao Ruxun is not incomprehensible.

Moreover, since the illegal incident, the Northwest Corps was disgraced in the Eight Great Corps of the country, and Zhao Hu even lost the honor of the Shangzhu Kingdom, looking for life and death in shame.

Knowing that the war preparations had been completed and ready to go to war at any time, he repeatedly sent petitions to Xiao Ruxun to ask him to lead troops to the expedition. From the fifth year of Longwu to the sixth year of Longwu, he sent the petition ten times, and Xiao Ruxun sent back ten times.

In March of the sixth year of Longwu, he made the No. 11 report, saying that the Northwest Corps was eager to fight to a certain extent, and begged His Majesty to allow us to attack Taolu to recover Hetao, and wipe out Qinghai Tumote together. shame.

After receiving his No. 11 petition, Xiao Ruxun finally considered it seriously.

After infiltrating and investigating the Hetao area and the Qinghai area, the General Staff Headquarters, combined with the multiple strategies of Zeng Mi's trilateral system in the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty decades ago, realized that the traditionally light-armed farming peoples eliminated nomadic peoples The tactics of war potential no longer work well.

It is not that the nomads have not made progress. The lairs have been destroyed by the Han people for thousands of years, and they have lost countless homes, wives and children. How could they not make progress?
So what needs to be done most now is not to destroy their lairs, but to use hard power to directly attack them, destroy them forcefully, and annex them directly. This is also Xiao Ruxun's strategic plan.

The Qin army used a large number of firearms such as chariots, crossbows, and bird guns. In the pre-Ming Dynasty, Xiao Ruxun used firearms and infantry formations to repeatedly defeat the direct attacks of the northern captive cavalry, and accumulated a wealth of combat experience against cavalry. It is not difficult to fight cavalry.

Therefore, the complex strategy proposed by the General Staff Headquarters is to use 5 infantry, [-] cavalry, a total of [-] troops to launch an all-out attack on the Hetao area, directly destroy the main force of the Beilu tribe in the Hetao area, completely destroy it, and restore control of the Hetao area. .

To attack Tumed in Qinghai, you need to mobilize the main force of the Northwest Corps to attack. Tumed in Qinghai occupies a vast area, and it will take some time to attack.

Restoring Hetao to capture Qinghai before the start of the Northern Expedition, not only can gain greater strategic initiative, restrain the threat of the entire western region to the Great Qin, but also can boost the morale of the entire army and the people, and greatly mobilize the fighting will of the officers and soldiers of the Northern Expedition the benefits of.

It is undoubtedly beneficial to be able to win these places first, lest they really go hand in hand when the time comes, and the central court is too overloaded, which may go wrong.

After Liu Huangshang submitted a report to expound such opinions, Xiao Ruxun thought carefully for three days, and finally decided to approve the Northwest Corps' re-set strategy and Qinghai strategy, and decided to let them fight first. The officers and soldiers of the Northern Expedition made a sample.

So he immediately issued a decree, commanding the General Staff Headquarters, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of War, and the cabinet to act immediately to complete all preparations, and the order to send troops will be issued at the end of March in the sixth year of Longwu.

With Qi Dayong, deputy commander of the Northwest Corps, as the marching general, he commanded [-] soldiers and horses to enter Hetao.

With Zhao Hu as the commander-in-chief of the march, and Huang Guang as the chief of staff of the march, the new Eighth and Ninth Field Army and the newly-organized Second Field Army of the Cavalry led a total of [-] troops to attack Tumed.

The goal is to fully recover Hetao and control Qinghai.

Take the Hetao area back into your hands, making it a sharp blade of Qin, controlling Qinghai, and taking the initiative.

The time for dispatching troops is the end of May and the beginning of June in the sixth year of Longwu, and the planned fighting time is three to five months.

This order was conveyed to Zhao Hu at the end of April in the sixth year of Longwu. Zhao Hu was overjoyed and started preparations immediately.

And on May [-]th, the sixth year of Longwu, this order was known to all the corps across the country. They all knew that the Northwest Corps had received the emperor's order and would start the conquest first, before the official Northern Expedition. .

The Northwest Corps was well-stocked and well prepared, and each army had a strong will to fight. After learning that the emperor had finally allowed them to take the initiative to attack, the entire Corps rejoiced as if they were celebrating the New Year, and immediately began to prepare for battle.

By May 27, the sixth year of Longwu, the whole army was fully prepared.

On May 29th of the sixth year of Longwu, Zhao Hu, Huang Guang and Qi Dayong held a swearing-in meeting, read out the emperor Xiao Ruxun's edict to send troops, and officially announced the expedition.

On May [-]th of the sixth year of Longwu, the Northwest Corps was divided into two groups. Qi Dayong attacked Hetao, and Zhao Hu led the main force to march into Qinghai.

On June [-]th of the sixth year of Longwu, Qi Dayong encountered the first northern captive cavalry since leaving the fortress. The number was about [-].

On June 860th in the sixth year of Longwu, Zhao Hu led his army to encounter a battle with a group of Tumote troops in the area of ​​Qinghai Lake. Zhao Hu led [-] cavalry to defeat it, beheaded [-] people, and captured four of them, men, women, old and children. More than ten thousand, won countless cattle, sheep and horses, and also made a good start of his own.

On the 670th, under the leadership of the guide, Zhao Hu led [-] cavalry to attack in the starry night. Sheep and horses and various other supplies.

On the same day, Qi Dayong once again broke through a group of captives, capturing more than [-] men and women, and more than [-] cattle, sheep and horses.

Qi Dayong's goal is to directly drive the former site of Dongshengwei, which was abandoned by the Ming Dynasty for more than a hundred years. The purpose of the Qin army is to re-establish a new Dongsheng County here, establish settlements, regain control here, and completely control Hetao. It's not come and go, nor is it pure revenge.

Zhao Hu's goal is even clearer, which is to take root here and turn it into an area directly ruled by Daqin.

Therefore, Bu Shitu, the leader of Qinghai Tumote who was invaded and looted everywhere by the Qin army, was greatly panicked.

His grandfather was La Like who was castrated by Xiao Ruxun and sent to Beijing to be beheaded for public display. During Xiao Ruxun's battle against La Like, he was taken away by his father, Chao Tu Taiji, and fled all the way back to Qinghai. Tumet tribe.

At that time, Xiao Ruxun and the exhausted Ming army did not have the strength to get rid of Tumed in Qinghai, and they planned to go to war after recuperating. This was Xiao Ruxun's idea at the time. As a result, Shen Yiguan had a mutiny, and he had another mutiny, which delayed the plan by six months. Year.

In fact, in Qinghai, after Chao Tutaiji settled down a bit, he didn't dare to think about avenging his father. Xiao Ruxun was too vicious, and he was completely unsure about fighting Xiao Ruxun.

Especially when I heard the news that Xiao Ruxun killed 30 captives in the Northern Expedition, the Tumet people in the entire Qinghai area and the captives in the Hetao area were terrified all day long.

Many tribal leaders from Tumed in Qinghai are too scared, and even plan to leave Qinghai and return north. Although the road ahead is long, it is better than waiting to die here.

As a result, the news of Xiao Ruxun's march did not come, but the news of civil strife in the Ming Dynasty came.

Chaotu Taiji was also unlucky, his health was not good, and he was injured again during the battle of Lalik's invasion of the south, and fell ill not long after he arrived in Qinghai.

After he heard the news that there was a civil strife in the Ming Dynasty and the general Xiao Ruxun rebelled, he wanted to take the opportunity to make troubles to win people's hearts and re-develop Tumed, but his body didn't allow it.

When he was in better health, he was surprised to hear that Xiao Ruxun went to Beijing to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and became the emperor of the Han people, and established the Great Qin Dynasty. He died of illness within a month.

The entire Qinghai Tumot once again fell into a rhythm of constant panic.

(End of this chapter)