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Chapter 176 Who is Luanhe famous for?

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As Young Master Zhang said, even if Young Master Zhang hadn’t arrested Tatar soldiers for training, Horqin’s Tatar army would not have given up their plan to attack the Jimen Great Wall. In the Horqin Tatar Army!This is not to say that Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng's master and slave were dazzled by hatred and insisted on killing Young Master Zhang at all costs, but because both Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng's master and slave knew very well how powerful Young Master Zhang was. , I also know that Young Master Zhang is good at forbearance, if he likes to say nothing, he will become a blockbuster, and he also knows that Young Master Zhang has been nested in Jimen this year, not moving, not imitating a turtle, but holding back some wicked ideas, brewing an earth-shattering event hit!If Master Zhang's vicious plan is not killed in the bud as soon as possible, what will happen to Huang Taiji and Master Fan Wencheng no longer dare to imagine what will happen.

Of course, war is not a trifling matter. The movement of an army will bring gold to mountains and oceans of food. Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng’s slaves were able to gather 10,000+ troops to come to Jimen to trouble Master Zhang. There are many reasons: First, relying on Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng With the full support of Master Cheng, Horqin Oba has exhausted all kinds of means for more than a year, gobbling up many weak and small tribes on the Mongolian grasslands, and his strength has greatly increased. In addition, the enmity between Oba and Young Master Zhang is not small ——The son was killed and the daughter was robbed, so Huang Taiji's master and slave could persuade Oba to organize the Tatar coalition army to attack Jimen. At the same time, he planned to take the opportunity to incorporate other small and medium Tatar tribes to further expand his power!
In addition to the reason of Horqin Oba, the second reason is that Master Zhang really bullied the Tatar tribes north of Jimen too badly. He unscrupulously arrested Tatar cavalry for the training of the slave army, what kind of food is he doing? According to the salt trade agreement, only Mongolian merchants who are pro-Ming can sell food, salt, cloth and other materials in short supply outside the customs in the border market directly controlled by Young Master Zhang. The front tribe seized part of the Mongolian grassland near the Great Wall, and repeatedly bullied the Kalami Tatar tribe with their noses and faces. Now Horqin Oba has come forward to organize a coalition to clean up Young Master Zhang. He hates Young Master Zhang and hates the Kalami Tatar tribe. Nature enthusiastically embraces.

The third reason is the famine problem. In the face of the Little Ice Age that affected the whole world, the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty to the south of the Great Wall have been tossed to death, not to mention the Mongolian grasslands that are further north and have a cold climate?The price of food on the Mongolian grasslands has skyrocketed. There are often two grains of rice and a bucket of silver and there is often no market for it. Hungry people are everywhere. Their food helped them survive the famine, and by the way, let them resell the grain to the slaves to earn high profits. The Tatar tribe outside the pass is almost destitute—but now the farmlands in various places in the pass have just been harvested, and there are small granaries for storage. The Tartar tribe doesn't want to enter the customs to grab money and grain?There is also a fourth reason that Huang Taiji's masters and slaves took the initiative to fight for. Under their ingenious instigation, Chechen Khan Shuo, who had previously had a grudge against Lin Dan, sent troops to the Kherlen River and fought against Lin Dan Khan, the deadly enemy of the Horqin Tatars. Fighting to the death, he restrained Lin Dan for Horqin, and solved the worries for the Tatar coalition forces.All kinds of subjective and objective reasons combined with various favorable conditions, the Tartar allied forces to conquer Jimen in the south finally took shape, blowing the clarion call to attack Jimen!

In 28 A.D., on June 43th, the seventh year of Mingqi, a 12 Tatar army composed of [-] tribes joined forces in Kekehetao, Kalami Grassland, with a company camp of more than [-] miles. Khan Ouba is the lord of the alliance, and he swears by blood, and swears to defeat Ming!At the same time, good news came from the messengers Ouba sent to Liaodong to contact Jiannu. The seriously ill Jiannu chief Nurhachi and the regent Beiledaishan agreed to Ouba's alliance request and decided to send [-] troops to attack Jinzhou restrained the strength of the Ming army so that the Ming army could not look at each other from head to toe. They also sent Daishan's third son, Sahaphos, to lead [-] cavalry to Kalami to help in the battle. He will come soon and join forces with the Tatar allied forces to attack Jimen. Take revenge on Young Master Zhang!
"Ula——!" After Auba announced the news to the public, the Tatar coalition composed of 43 tribes cheered like thunder, and they all said that the coalition's attack on the alliance would surely win the battle.Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng's slaves are also very happy. The news that they are hiding in the Horqin Grassland, in fact, the last time Yue Tuo led his army deep into the Mongolian Grassland, it has already reached Nuerhachi's ears, and now Nuerhachi Not only did he not force Horqin to surrender, but he also agreed to send troops to support him. This proves that Nurhachi has realized his mistake and knows that he has wronged Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng. It is expected that it will be just around the corner!

"Master, if the news of the Mongolian coalition forces going south to attack Jimen reaches the ears of Zhang Haogu, how do you think he will react?" Fan Wencheng asked Huang Taiji proudly.Huang Taiji smiled, and replied: "I can't guess it, but I'm sure I'm frightened. Now the barbarian court is devastated by the two battlefields of Liaodong and Shaanxi, and the main force is confined to these two battlefields. If there is no food, there is no way to provide reinforcements to Zhang Haogu, and it is difficult for Zhang Haogu not to cry this time."

"It deserves it!" Fan Wencheng sneered, pulled out a four-inch long willow-leaf steel knife from his sleeve, and said with a smirk: "When you catch Zhang Haogu and chop him up alive, please let the master let him go!" This servant will cut this little barbarian alive with his own knife—this servant has all the knives ready!"

"Of course, I will not only give you a chance, but I will also cut him hundreds of knives!" Huang Taiji agreed with a grim smile, then put away his serious expression, and said in a deep voice: "But we can't underestimate the enemy. There are many people, but the personnel are complicated, the combat power is different, and there is no shortage of people with ulterior motives among them. Zhang Haogu's little savage is unparalleled in cunning. If he is a little careless, he may succeed in his tricks of alienation and counter-insurgency, resulting in wasted efforts! "

"It makes sense, if that little barbarian claims to be the second most cunning, treacherous and poisonous man in the world, no one will dare to call himself the number one!" Thinking of the plots and schemes of Young Master Zhang before, Fan Wencheng, who suffered from it, felt an urge to cry—— Young Master Zhang's plots and tricks are no longer full of tricks, they are simply ever-changing, and it is hard to guard against!Licking the sharp knife again, Fan Wencheng gritted his teeth and said: "Master, this servant thinks that we can't use any sneak attack methods to attack Jimen this time. Those tricks won't work against the good old barbarians. We should attack directly." , use a majestic formation to break Zhang Haogu's shameless trick!"

"Of course." Huang Taiji, who was also tossed to death by Young Master Zhang's tricks, of course would not repeat the same mistakes, and said with a grinning smile: "The defense line of the Jimen Great Wall is thousands of miles long, and there are as many as eighteen gates. The strength of the army is only more than 4 points. With such a long defense line, we only need to use the method of frontal attack, and we will not worry about not being able to attract the main force of Zhang Haogu's little barbarian. At that time, we can attack head-on if we can. If you can't, take advantage of the main force of Zhang Haogu's little barbarian being restrained by our army's main force, and then separate out one or two partial divisions to attack the other Great Wall passes that are empty of troops, and breaking through Jimen is as easy as flipping the palm of your hand!"

"What the master said is very true. This move is just the right thing to do. This time the Mongolian allied forces will conquer the south under the wise leadership of the master. They will break through the capital of the barbarians in one fell swoop and take control of the Central Plains!" Fan Wencheng said without blushing. Flattering also completely exposed his greatest ambition-to allow foreign races to rule and poison the Chinese nation.But to be exaggerated, Fan Wencheng and Huang Taiji knew in their hearts that in front of the cunning and venomous Young Master Zhang, the southern expedition this time would not be as easy as imagined. Fan Wencheng and Huang Taiji had only one thought in their hearts, "Zhang Good old man, what kind of tricks are you going to play this time?"

On June 29, the Tatar allied forces took Horqin tribe Taiji Tumei as the vanguard and led an army of 12. They set off from the Keke River, went down to Jimen along the Keke River, Baohe River and Baohe River. Shetuhan Ouba personally led the main force to follow - the biggest advantage of taking this road is that there is sufficient water, which is very important for marching on the grasslands. At the same time, the terrain at Xifengkou is also conducive to the deployment of the army. Stuttering suffered a great loss, but Auba and Huang Taiji chose Xifengkou as the main battlefield without hesitation. The [-] Tatar army marched southward, stretching for more than [-] miles. Wherever they passed along the way, the grassland changed color and the momentum was extremely mighty.

On the fourth day of July, the Tatar allied forces arrived at Qingcheng, crossed the Keke River and continued southward. News from the border cities of Zhangjiakou and Gubeikou.Not to kill the envoys was originally the rule of the Mongolian army. The stubborn Ming court killed the envoys and declared war, and also closed the Zhangjiakou border market, the last source of food for the treacherous tribes. The Tatar coalition forces were all furious. It took three days to arrive at Fuyu on the upper reaches of Baohe River, only three hundred miles away from Xifengkou...

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The news that the 12 Tatar coalition troops were marching towards Xifengkou quickly spread to the south of the Jimen Great Wall through various channels, and quickly spread to the capital.The last sliver of hope was completely shattered. Countless officials and wealthy households in the capital rushed to transfer their families and properties to the south without hesitation, and a boom followed. There were even extreme cases of officials abandoning their officials and fleeing south. However, these phenomena also show that ——Most people are not optimistic that the Ming army can hold the Jimen line of defense.But Ming Xizong and Wei Zhongxian shouted nicely, saying that the king died in Sheji and wanted to live and die with the capital, but they were equally terrified in their hearts, and they also had serious doubts about whether they could hold the Jimen line of defense.

Under the apprehension, Ming Xizong and Wei Zhongxian even made an exception to follow the advice of Hou Yi and other Donglin Party officials, and sent Jin Yiwei to monitor Young Master Zhang's house in Wenchengxiang Hutong, ready to use the heads of Young Master Zhang's family to appease the soldiers and civilians in the capital at any time.Now Zhang Laocai's family is dumbfounded. They were extremely worried about the safety of the only son of the tenth generation. Now the imperial court has placed his whole family under house arrest. Even the only seedling of the No. 11th generation has been taken hostage. If he is not careful, his family will be ruined. The situation frightened the eleven old wives of Young Master Zhang to cry and cry every day. Zhang Laocai himself sighed and frowned every day, and finally fell ill in bed, and several old wives of Young Master Zhang also fell ill.

Fortunately, Xiao Chuan, brother-in-law of Jin Yiwei boss Tian Ergeng, and Young Master Zhang are sworn brothers, and Xiao Chuan, Song Jin and others are behind the scenes to help. Although Jin Yiwei monitors the Zhang family, he dare not neglect the family of Young Master Zhang.Young Master Zhang's monogamy and concubine are not ordinary characters. In such a critical and unknown situation, Xiong Hu resolutely stood up and provoked the burden of the whole family. While negotiating with Jin Yiwei, who was monitoring his family, he asked Wei Zhongxian to send an imperial physician to treat Young Master Zhang's parents and get them Wei Zhongxian agreed, and wrote a letter to ask his father for help, imploring his father to send reinforcements to Xifengkou to help Young Master Zhang.Da Yuer waited beside her father-in-law and mother-in-law's sick bed in untidy clothes, repeatedly comforting her father-in-law, "Elder-in-law, mother-in-law, you still don't know your son? He is a cat, has nine lives, and has a more cunning head than a fox. Claws sharper than wolves, tigers and leopards——The Tatar coalition army and my ex-husband Huang Taiji want his life, and wait for his next life! My daughter-in-law can assure you that the Tatar coalition army will only come happily when they come to Jimen this time , cry and cry!"

Not to mention that Zhang Laocai's family was worried and frightened in the capital, but that after Xiong Hu's letter was managed to be handed over to Xiao Chuan, Xiao Chuan quickly dispatched a fast horse to deliver the letter to Shanhaiguan, where it was handed over to Liaodong Governor Xiong Tingbi.Xiong Tingbi read the letter furiously, and cursed: "You son of a bitch, you don't listen to me telling you not to arrest the Tatars for military training, and you don't listen to my telling you not to anger the Tatars! Now it's all over, I've got my daughter and grandson implicated by you! I used to ask you to send me hundreds of new muskets, but you were reluctant to send me a military trainer, and you didn’t want it, but now that something happened, you have the audacity to ask Hu’er for help? You want me to send you reinforcements, Dreaming! Jianu is coming to Jinzhou again, I will give you the reinforcements from Lao Tzu?"

Scolding is all about scolding, but no matter what, Xiong Tingbi couldn't bear to see his only daughter widowed at a young age. In addition, Ji Yong, the military supervisor of Shanhaiguan, was also at the side to persuade and intercede. Ma Shilong led five thousand horsemen to Xifengkou to reinforce his son-in-law. At the same time, he ordered Yan Mingtai, the governor of Yongping, to send out troops to help young master Zhang when he was in danger. ——As for whether the reinforcements will arrive in time, Xiong Tingbi can only resign himself to his fate if Young Master Zhang can persist until the reinforcements arrive at Xifengkou.

When Ma Shilong's reinforcements set off from Shanhaiguan, it was already the tenth day of July in the seventh year of the apocalypse. They hurried all the way, and when they arrived at Qian'an City on the Luan River in Yongping Prefecture, it was already the afternoon of July [-]th.It was not until this moment that Ma Shilong joined forces with Hu Maocai, a general of the Ming army stationed here, that he learned from Hu Maocai that the Tatar coalition forces had fully arrived at Xifengkou at noon yesterday, and started a battle with Young Master Zhang's army!As for the outcome, we don't know yet, but Young Master Zhang didn't ask the Yongping army for reinforcements!

"Already marked? It's a bit late, I hope Brother Zhang can support it!" Ma Shilong, who once fought the enemy side by side with Young Master Zhang and formed a deep friendship, said bitterly.Just as he was about to order the cavalry to continue marching towards Xifengkou, a Ming soldier from Qian'an suddenly stumbled over and shouted from a distance: "General Hu, hurry to the river, Luanhe...Luanhe , the Luan River has turned red! There is still a strong smell of blood!"

"The Luan River is stained red with blood?!" The faces of all the generals of the Ming Army present changed color—everyone knows that the Luan River flows through the Xifeng Pass and then flows into the territory of Yongping. The river was stained red with blood, so what kind of earth-shattering battle took place at Xifengkou?One can imagine!But the question is, who's blood stained the blood flowing in the Luan River?
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