Boshu Ketujinong was two years younger than Gao Pingshi, and he was at the age of great ambition. He was probably in a state of mind where he was the eldest son, Genghis Khan was the second eldest son, and he was the third eldest son.
Such a young man is youthful and energetic, and has the courage to put his ideas into practice, so he is very dissatisfied with the dignified Mongolian Jinong being overshadowed by Han Naji, but he ignores the practical factors - Han Naji is even more powerful than him.
We have the right time, right place and right people.
The so-called "Tianshi" actually refers to the attitude of the Ming Dynasty. Whether he understands it or not, approves it or not, the Ming Dynasty is still a country that crushes Mongolia with national power, and is basically peaceful internally. It's just this time that it happened.
A bit of a surprise.
It was an accident caused by a strange combination of circumstances in the rush to complete the plan to open the vassal and ban the country. However, the size and appeal of the Ming Dynasty were still far beyond what his Ordos tribe could match.
Boshu Ketu originally thought that with the restraint of Tumen Khan, it was impossible for Tumote to launch an actual attack on Tumote when he had already lost control of Qinghai Tumote, so he agreed to send troops. Even though he later heard that the Ming Dynasty
The imperial court sent Gao Pangshi, known as the Third Ming King on the grassland, to quell the rebellion, but he didn't take it seriously.
In Boshu Ketu's view, although Gao Pragmatic fought well in the Battle of Monan and Liaonan, those two battles had a premise, that is, the Mongols were proactively attacking and Gao Pragmatic judged the target correctly.
In fact, two wait-and-see wars were fought. Although the war process was complicated, it did not change this basis.
Boshu Ketu dismissed this. He believed that as long as he took advantage of the mobility of the Mongolian cavalry and did not fight a decisive battle with Gao Pangshi, he could avoid similar defeats in Monan and Liaonan.
He remembered that Qie Jin had analyzed it for him half a year after he had been in Liaonan, explaining that the strength of the army had been continuously increasing in the past ten years, whether it was the army's weapons and equipment, its morale, or even the time spent on exercises
It is much stronger than it was more than ten years ago, and its combat effectiveness has naturally been greatly improved as a result.
At this time, it is simply impossible to expect that like in the Gengshu year, 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry would suppress more than 100,000 Ming troops and fight casually, and still make the Ming troops dare not leave the city. That is already impossible. In the Battle of Monan
Although the Ming army did not have many opportunities to actually fight, it was able to fight back despite the inferior strength of the infantry despite the cavalry attack. This is clear evidence of this.
As for the Battle of Southern Liaoning, it is not necessary to mention that the Ming army not only fought brilliantly in combined water and land operations, but also once again used infantry to withstand the desperate charge of the elite cavalry of the Chaohua Department. What does this mean? It means that at least on the frontal battlefield
In the battle, the Mongolian cavalry no longer had an advantage over the Ming infantry whose firearms quality had significantly improved.
Although Boshu Ketu had basically fallen out with Chejin, he still had a relatively clear understanding of Chejin's wisdom. Moreover, Chejin's analysis at the time was very detailed, even if he didn't want to admit it.
Therefore, this time he could be regarded as facing up to the Ming army's advantage in frontal combat, and made up his mind not to engage in a decisive battle with Gao Pangshi, but instead changed his thinking back to the old tradition of the Mongolian soldiers - harassment warfare.
Especially when he learned that Gao Pragmatic's army did not go south of the Great Wall, but came directly from Hetao, he became even more convinced of this view.
In Boshu Ketu's opinion, if Gao Pragmatic's army of 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers marches directly into the Loop, then he will definitely not be able to bring too much food and fodder. If he finds the right opportunity to launch a surprise attack, he does not want to defeat Gao Pragmatic's army on the spot, but only needs to If you find a way to burn the Ming army's food and grass, this war will actually be won.
The Ming army is not the Mongolian army. If they lose their logistics, they will lose their lives. If they starve to death today, they will not survive until tomorrow. Once the food and grass under Gao Pangshi's command are lost, he only needs to monitor them on the grassland for a few days and then he can get over. The battlefield has been cleaned up. This victory is simply hard to find, and it takes no effort at all.
The only hidden worry in this is the movement of Qie Jin's troops. According to the news from the spies, Qie Jin's eldest son Yilduzi led a troop of troops and headed east "a few days ago". It seems that Most likely to meet or greet Gao Qingshi.
Considering that the spies also reported that Chukukur still had sufficient strength in the old camp of Qiejin, Boshuktu believed that Ilduzi did not bring the main force of the Qiejin camp, or at most he and Chukukol did so alone. Half - this is in line with Mongolian tradition.
If Ilduzi really brought half of his troops to help Gao Jingjing, the matter would still be difficult, because at least it would be much more difficult for him to conduct a sneak attack - everyone is Mongolian, if you can find me, I will If I can find you, it won't be sudden.
However, Boshu Ketu doubted whether Yilduzi would really help Gao Pragmatic wholeheartedly. He still knew Yilduzi. In Chinese terms, he had too many tricks and wanted him to fight with all his strength. Not easy.
Boshu Ketu estimated that when he gathered the soldiers and horses from Huamachi and appeared in front of Ilduzi with more than 30,000 horsemen, Ilduzi would most likely avoid the battle and take a detour to give up the battlefield. For yourself and the Ming army.
But that doesn't matter. Yilduzi expects him to fight to the death with the Ming army, but he just wants to burn the Ming army's food and grass. When the time comes, he will burn the fire and turn around to leave. Yilduzi can't stop him even if he wants to. Stop it - besides, Ilduzi might not want to stop him at that time?
He didn't kill that old stubborn man. Once the Ming army lost food and grass, couldn't he see that this was a tiger that was about to starve to death? The two wolves did not share the food of the dying tiger, but instead killed each other. What's the point?
With this kind of thinking in mind, Boshuketu secretly sent someone to contact Yilduzi while running to Huamachi in the past two days, hoping to reach "cooperation" with Yilduzi in private. To this end, Boshuketu Tu even promised that as long as this battle goes smoothly and he can steadily obtain the Huamachi area, he will allocate a piece of pasture from his headquarters in Yijinhuoluo closest to the old camp of Qiejin to Yilduzi, and also give him three thousand sheep. As a reward.
Considering that the economic strength of the Ordos Ministry is not as good as that of Tumut, this can be said to be a very sincere deal. Boshu Ketu thinks that Yilduzi will probably accept it because of his temperament of making small calculations.
The spy came back a night later than he expected, but the news he brought back was pretty good. Ilduzi wrote him a letter on good paper. In the letter, he first stated that he was indeed following Gao Pragmatic. The army is moving, but this is only because "it is difficult to disobey the father's orders", and he himself is very unhappy about this.
Then he also talked about an important reason why he was not happy. He said that Gao Pragmatic was very arrogant and disrespectful to him. He opened his mouth and shut up in order to cut off his status as an old friend and not take him seriously, which made him very angry.
Dissatisfaction - Ilduzi is more than ten years older than Gao Pragmatic, so of course he is not happy to be treated like this.
Next, Ilduqi responded to Boshu Ketu's proposal. He expressed that he basically recognized Jinong's arrangement. However, due to the consideration of "the father's orders cannot be violated", he could not bring his troops with him now.
The cavalry left and could only wait for Jinong's army to launch an attack. Then he could pretend to be attacked by a sneak attack, feign failure, and retreat while fighting, creating conditions for Jinong to "severely injure or annihilate the Ming army."
At the same time, he also had some objections to Jinong's reward - he thought Huamachi was much better than the pasture Jinong was willing to allocate to him. Therefore, he also hoped that Jinong would agree to give Huamachi a reward after he got it.
Then give him 20,000 carts of salt every year. If Jinong can agree, he will fully agree to this matter, and he will even be punished by his father after returning to the old camp.
When Boshu Ketu saw the letter, he first sneered and said to the people around him: "Ilduzi wrote to me on such fine paper to show the benefits of joining the Ming army and to threaten me if I didn't do what he said.
If you receive a reward, he will continue to help the Ming army, huh."
Everyone saw the good paper in his hand, and they were all envious of it - no joke, when Ji Neng applied for the title, Qie Jin wrote the tribute form and gave it to Wang Chonggu, the then governor of Xuanda. As a result, Wang Chonggu thought that the tribute form was
His words were not humble enough, so he asked Qie Jin to write him a new one.
As a result, guess what? Qie Jin, who was waiting outside the customs, quickly sent someone to reply, saying that writing the tribute form was easy to handle, but there was no good paper in the box. He asked Grand Master Wang to give him some paper first...
It can be seen from this that good paper is really a rarity in the collection department. Yilduzhi must have had some purpose in choosing such good paper to write the letter.
A general said angrily: "What's there to show off? When this ceremony is completed, let's not talk about a Huamachi. It is possible to capture Yansui and even Shaanxi. By then, as long as Tongguan is defended, Guanzhong will be defeated."
It’s ours, let alone a piece of paper, so what if it’s ten thousand pieces of paper, don’t you just have it if you want it?”
Another general said: "There seems to be some contradiction in this matter. Ilduzi said that Gao pragmatically entrusted him with great things, but at the same time he could produce such a good piece of paper..."
Boshu Ketu waved his hand and said: "There is nothing contradictory in this. Being pragmatic and trusting in magnanimity is nothing more than the habit of those pedantic scholars in the Ming Dynasty. But after all, he is not a fool. Naturally, he will still use some things to bribe Ilduzi. This is also
Akito's consistent behavior. Ilduzi just wanted to tell me that although he was not very happy in front of Gao Pragmatism, at least he had gained something. If I did not meet his requirements, he would not disobey Qie Jin's order.
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The general suddenly said: "Oh, he is bargaining." Then he paused and added: "Qie Jin's family has read a lot of Chinese books. Why do they talk and do things in so many roundabout ways? It's really not like us Mongolian warriors.
, Fortunately, both father and son still have the title of Batur."
Boshu Ketu was too lazy to say this. He thought for a moment and said in deep thought: "Twenty thousand carts of salt is not a small amount, but if we can win the Huamachi, I can afford the salt. And if we can defeat Gao Pragmatic...
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Thinking of Gao Pragmatic's great reputation in Mongolia, and the prospect of his reputation greatly increasing after defeating Gao Pragmatic, Boshu Ketu's blood boiled, and he said slowly and forcefully: "This condition is nothing."
All the generals burst into praise, and one of them said: "Yes, if Jinong can defeat Grand Master Gao of the Ming Dynasty, it will be like when Arutai captured Emperor Ming, from Monan to Mobei, from the right wing to the left wing, and
Who dares to disobey him? From now on, our Ordos department no longer has to look at Tumut’s face to act.”
Another person added: "Not only that, we'd better capture Master Gao alive. I heard that he and Emperor Zhu are classmates and friends. When the time comes, take him to talk to Emperor Zhu and let our Ordos Ministry
Gong City no longer needs to be under the jurisdiction of Tumed, so that it can truly appear that Ordos is not under the jurisdiction of Tumed!"
This statement is even more practical, because when Anda paid tribute, King Shunyi was Anda, and Anda controlled the entire right wing including the Ordos tribe. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that all Mongolian right wing troops would be
The tribute markets are all under the jurisdiction of King Shunyi. King Shunyi will report to the court in advance the size of the tribute market they need each year and the approximate goods being traded. The court will determine the final trade volume and other details based on King Shunyi's report.
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It is precisely for this reason that King Shunyi has controlled the economic lifeline of the Ordos tribe and Qinghai Tumote to a certain extent. But this is also a double-edged sword. When the people in power of the Ordos tribe or Qinghai Tumote think that
When the amount of tribute and market he received was insufficient, he would hold a grudge against Tumut, thinking that King Shunyi was unfair, and then develop a rebellious mentality.
When Boshu Ketu heard this, he agreed very much and said proudly: "Yes, I am a Mongolian Jinong and the lord of 30,000 households in Ordos. Why should I listen to the distribution of Hannaji? The power of self-determination of this tribute city must be taken back.
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This seemed to be very domineering, but he seemed to have forgotten one thing: don't you still want the tribute market?
But someone remembered that the general who previously advocated taking Guanzhong said: "What Jinong said is naturally reasonable, but this is what we need to do when we cannot take Guanzhong. If we can successfully take Guanzhong, this will
I don’t think it’s possible whether the tribute market is still needed.”
However, in fact, the ambitious idea of "taking Guanzhong" was not really favored by most people, so everyone did not think carefully about what to do after taking Guanzhong. After listening to his words, someone asked: "As long as we take Guanzhong,
In Xiaguanzhong, aren’t there any shortages of everything we need?”
The general replied: "That is natural. I have learned before that Guanzhong is the former homeland of the Qin State. The Qin State can rule the world based on Guanzhong. It can be seen that Guanzhong is rich and there must be no shortage of these goods. As long as we can capture Guanzhong,
There is no need to talk about the tribute market with the Ming Dynasty anymore, we can even consider following the example of the past and go south to capture Sichuan!"
When Boshu Ketu heard this, his heart was surging, and he slapped the table: "Okay, well said! In this case, without further delay, let's reply to Yilduzi first and settle the matter. No matter it is Guanzhong,
Regardless of Sichuan, if we want to get it, we must first defeat Gao Panggang!"
Everyone agreed in unison, with high spirits, as if Guanzhong was within easy reach, and even Sichuan was within easy reach.
The so-called long-term goal is to look forward to Shu, but now that Long has not yet been obtained, they have already begun to look forward to Shu...
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