When Wan Lei rushed to the military town in Jizhou, it was already dark. Tomorrow would be the Mid-Autumn Festival. When more than 20,000 officers and soldiers in the military town heard that he was coming, they thought he was here to express condolences. They organized a group to welcome him outside the military town and held a ceremony.
It's quite grand.
Jizhou Military Town is located in the original Jizhou City. Since the town is bounded by the Mongolian Duoyan Sanwei to the north and Yongping Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty to the east, it is an important border defense town. After more than half a year of construction, Jizhou City is also small-scale, with a tower of more than ten meters high.
It is all made of bricks and stones, and thousands of prisoners were used during the construction period, all of whom were Mongolians captured from the border.
Although it is far smaller than the city of Peiping, it can still be said to be impregnable. There are dozens of new artillery on top of the city. In addition, there are 20,000 elite cavalry in the city. Even if there are tens of thousands of powerful enemies to attack, there is no way to break through.
.And the cavalry of the Peking Army can
They are not afraid of field battles, and they will not stick to a city and let the enemy attack them. Coupled with the high-speed mobility of the cavalry, the Peking Army from as far away as Changping can quickly come to the rescue. The main force of the Peking Army is 50,000, plus home battles, and the five or six troops can be wiped out.
It is not difficult to have ten thousand strong enemies.
Wan Lei chatted with the officers and soldiers for a while, then entered the military town and sat down in the Chinese army camp. Zhou Tianshou had already had the interrogation confession prepared and was waiting for him to read it. He looked through it for a while,
He said: "Who captured these prisoners? Bring them up to see me."
In fact, judging from the confessions during the interrogation, the man who claimed to be the Great Khan of Mongolia was probably the current Great Khan of Mongolia - Kun Timur Khan. This guy succeeded to the throne as the Great Khan of Mongolia two years ago, but he was a Mongolian Tatar.
The puppet of the leader of the tribe, Gui Lichi, who wants soldiers but no soldiers and wants power but no power.
According to the confessor, the young Kun Timur Khan was unlucky enough. He could still have enough food and clothing as a puppet. However, not long ago, there was turmoil in Beiyuan. Guilichi, who was the Taishi of Beiyuan, and Zhili
Arutai in the courtyard was at odds with each other, and the two sides raised troops to fight, fighting to the death.
There was a fire in Beiyuan, which had something to do with Wan Lei. The reason why Gui Lichi was fighting with Arutai, apart from the power struggle, was mainly to compete for the few alkali lakes on the Mongolian plateau, because
Alkali can be used to exchange food with Shuntian Mansion, and food is related to the life and death of the tribe. For the benefit of the tribe, both parties will naturally fight to the death.
Kun Timur Khan, as a fish in the pond, was also deeply affected. Just half a month ago, Arutai took advantage of the ghost Lichi's carelessness and sent troops to kidnap the puppet Khan. He also wanted to imitate the ghost Lichi and kidnap the emperor.
Yi Ling's princes, but he himself was not as strong as Gui Lichi, so he was beaten and fled in the first battle.
Naturally, Arutai was unwilling to fail. In order to make a comeback, he actually dragged the Great Khan to the Duoyan tribe in eastern Mongolia and used it as a mortgage. Arutai united with the leader of the Duoyan tribe, Tuoerhuocha, and sent troops to the west again.
Cut off and fight to the death with Guili.
Although Kun Timur Khan has been a puppet for several years, he still retains the wolf blood of his ancestors. Naturally, he will not be willing to be a puppet forever. Therefore, on a dark and windy night, while the Duoyan tribe's army marched westward,
The guards were lax again, and under the protection of some close friends, he escaped.
When the Duoyan tribe saw that the puppet Khan had run away, they immediately sent people to chase them. As soon as you chased me and I ran away, Kun Timur's few close followers were killed and injured, and finally fell into the Great Wall very unfortunately.
In the ambush position of the Peking Army, he was unfortunately captured and taken prisoner by the Peking Army.
Wan Lei put down the confession in his hand. At this time, two soldiers full of toughness were brought in. Wan Lei stood up, put his right fist to his chest, and gave them the military salute. They immediately stood at attention and held their chests high.
He raised his head, stood upright, and returned the most formal Peking Army chest-to-chest salute.
"Sit." Wan Lei pointed to a chair opposite them and sat down opposite them. The two soldiers didn't say much. They simply sat down with their backs straight and waited for Wan Lei to ask questions.
Wan Lei pointed to the portrait of the prisoner attached to the confession and asked them: "Is this person your prisoner?"
"Yes." The two men answered in unison. The soldiers of the Peking Army were all full of energy, so their voices were naturally a bit louder than ordinary people.
"Tell me more about the situation at that time." Wan Lei asked.
"At that time, Zhou Qiang and I went out for field training, and later..." An older soldier began to tell. He didn't speak much, but he was still organized. He quickly told the whole story.
Then he asked with some worry: "Sir, did we make a mistake in performing our mission?"
"No, you have completed the training mission excellently. I am just asking as a rule. You don't have to have any psychological burden." Wan Lei certainly will not pass the responsibility of catching people who should not be caught to the soldiers, they are just giving orders.
As long as the executor carries out the order seriously, he has no fault and should be rewarded.
As for some unforeseen things that happened during the execution of the order, the responsibility does not lie with them, but with the Military Commission that issued the order. Directly speaking, this matter is Wan Lei's own responsibility. Of course Wan Lei will not shirk responsibility, let alone
I won't treat these two soldiers as troublemakers and treat them differently.
As soon as Wan Lei said this, the two soldiers felt relieved. The other soldier mustered up his courage and asked, "Sir, I have something that I don't know whether I should ask?"
"Our Peking Army has always been fair and open. As long as it is not confidential, officers and soldiers have the right to ask." Wan Lei said.
"My subordinates heard that Jingzhong Guard is recruiting people, but I wonder what conditions must be met to recruit people?" the soldier asked.
"The Jingzhong Guard will expand its recruitment of a group of about fifty people early next month. They will be selected from all the officers and soldiers of the Peking Army. All officers and soldiers below the battalion level can participate, with priority given to those who are young, literate and have military merit. However, the training of the Jingzhong Guard is relatively
The military camp is more strict, and those who do not have the spirit of hard work and hard work should not join."
"Sir, how much military merit is required?" Another soldier asked again.
"The previous time it was one hundred, this time it may be lowered. It should be at least eighty. We will see the notice issued by the Military Commission at that time. Let me remind you that this is a big challenge in the army. Many capable people in the whole army will participate together. From it,
We will select the best candidates for recruitment. If you want to be selected, you must first make full preparations."
"Thank you sir for reminding us. We have nothing to do. Can we go back to camp first?"
Wan Lei nodded and motioned for them to retreat first, but secretly thought that his move of selecting elite loyal guards from the entire army was really effective and had an motivating effect. Of course, to ensure that this effect lasts longer, he must ensure that he chooses the loyal guards.
The procedures and results must be fair and just, and any backdoor practices must be eliminated.
"Mr. Wan, it seems this is true, what should we do?" Zhou Tianshou asked after Xiaobing left.
"According to those two people, there were three Mongolians who ran away at the scene. They must be people from the Duoyan tribe, and they went back to report the news. I believe the news will spread soon, and the Mongolians will soon think of it.
It's the person we caught, so, this
I'm afraid the matter cannot be concealed." Wan Lei frowned and said, he also thought about concealing the matter first, keeping the Khan in captivity, and then releasing him when the time is right, and using him as a puppet to control the various Mongolian ministries, but now it seems
Come on, this is impossible.
"Why don't you kill him secretly and get rid of him once and for all?" Zhou Tianshou suggested. In fact, he wanted to kill this so-called Great Khan with great fanfare and spread the word. After all, the Mongols are synonymous with hatred to the people of Peking.
Not to mention, not long ago, the Mongols were the main force attacking the people of Peiping and killed many officials and people. Naturally, this revenge must be avenged.
However, considering the political impact, if the Great Khan is really spread all over the world, the Mongols may put aside their internal conflicts and attack the Peiping Army in unison, which would be very unpleasant. Therefore, the only way to kill them is to do it secretly
Kill him, and after he kills him, he will refuse to admit it until death, so that the Mongols can find no excuse.
"I'll go see the big Khan first and see what he says before making any plans." Wan Lei was also undecided. It was supposed that killing him secretly would solve the problem, but he still had the idea of benefiting from the big sweat.
But the Great Khan of Mongolia, no matter how bad things happen, it is possible to get more information about the various ethnic groups in Mongolia from his mouth.
"I have sent several groups of people to interrogate him. He either kept silent or said a few nonsense words that even the translator could not understand. He is really a soft-spoken person." Zhou Tianshou frowned. He didn't want to dig more.
Some useful information was provided, but the Great Khan refused to speak. Those who spoke were only small minions, and the information they gave was of little value.
"Call the translator and I'll go talk to him personally."
Due to the importance of the matter, the news of the capture of the Mongolian Khan was blocked by Zhou Tianshou early on. The people who knew about it could be counted on their fingers. Those who knew about it were all given a hush-hush order and were strictly prohibited from telling the story.
Xie. Accompanied by two translators, Wan Lei came to a tightly guarded dungeon and met the so-called Great Khan of Mongolia.
Maybe because of the difference in eating habits, Mongolians generally look more mature than people from the Central Plains, but this Mongolian Khan has a big beard, and his face that looks old cannot tell how old he is. And his face is a bit older.
The whiteness may be caused by excessive blood loss from the wound, but he still has a strong look on his face. He is worthy of being a descendant of the Golden Family, and he has the tyranny of the Wolf King in his bones.
"￥￥&&￥#%" When the Mongolian Khan saw Wan Lei and the translators coming in, he started talking "nonsense". Wan Lei couldn't understand it anyway, but judging from the other party's tone and demeanor, these words were definitely not understood.
Welcome words.
Wan Lei didn't take it seriously, and without waiting for the translators to translate for him, he said: "Ask him if he wants to stay here or go back to Beiyuan."
Wan Lei intends to return the Great Khan to the most powerful Tatar tribe, so that this guy can continue to be his puppet. But Gui Lichi got the lost Great Khan of Mongolia, and he had to sell some favors from Shuntian Mansion.
, Beiyuan and Shuntian Mansion can still maintain this "ally" relationship in the future. Although this move will offend Alutai and Duoyan tribe, it can be regarded as the lesser of two evils.
In fact, Wan Lei himself did not hate the Mongols, but in several recent wars, he saw with his own eyes many of his compatriots died under the iron heel of the Mongols, so he was full of dissatisfaction with the Mongols, especially the Mongolians of Duoyan Sanwei.
Hateful and naturally not fond of the Mongol Khan.
Of course, hatred is hatred, and Wan Lei will not be blinded by hatred. Before the strength of the Peking Army develops, he will not take the initiative to provoke an all-out war with the Mongols. However, not provoking trouble does not mean that he is afraid of war, as long as
If the Mongolian army dared to enter even half a step into Shuntian Prefecture, he would send troops to follow the enemy and fight to the death until they were driven out.
"￥%#&%￥" The other party spoke nonsense again, and the translator translated in Wan Lei's ear: "Kill him if he says he wants to, otherwise he will bring someone to take revenge in the future."
Wan Lei couldn't help but roll his eyes at the other party for being so violent even after being imprisoned, and said to the translator: "Tell him to spare his life for the time being and stay here honestly."