The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

In early October, the temperature in Xining was already very cold.

At the entrance of Nerduo Gorge in Nanchuan, about dozens of miles away from the Acropolis of Xining, three battalions of thousands of Ming troops were equipped for battle.

Counselor Military Affairs Lin Tailai bent down and curiously looked at the 350-pound cannon in front of him.

Master Shi, the peak inspector and half-step inspector, came over and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Lin Tailai stood up, shook his head and said, "This cannon is too old. It's time to replace it with a new one."

Mr. Shi is not someone who knows nothing about military affairs, otherwise he would not have been ordered to be sent to the front line of Xining at this critical moment.

Hearing this, he said: "Are you talking about the new powerful long-range cannon? It has not been deployed here yet."

The newly released Great Power long-range cannon is not only more advanced in manufacturing technology than the old iron-hooked cannon, but also more powerful while being lighter. It is also equipped with a front sight and a rear sight for more accurate shooting.

Lin Tailai casually drew the pie: "When I return to the capital, I will try to take charge of the Arms Bureau and make arrangements for you as soon as possible!"

Master Shi: "."

Are the current celebrities born in Hanlin so willful? Can you run whatever yamen you want?

After finishing the chat, Lin Tailai said in confusion: "As the commander-in-chief, why did you come to me for a chat instead of inspecting the camp?"

Master Shi said a little nervously: "Is it possible?"

Under Lin Tailai's persuasion, the Taolu tribes began to leave the West Sea and return to the north.

Then Lin Tailai got mysterious information. The leader of the Hailu, Walatabu Nang, led thousands of fine cavalry, using the Taolu tribe returning to the north as a cover, in an attempt to approach the Xining Acropolis and carry out a sneak attack and plunder.

Later, the mysterious information became more and more accurate, and Lin Tailai was clearly informed that the Wala Tabu Nang would pass through the Nerduo Gorge on roughly two days.

Therefore, under the strong support of Lin Tailai, Counselor of Military Affairs, Xining Guard made targeted deployments.

Master Shi and Lin Tailai led three battalions of 5,100 troops, dozens of miles out of the city, and ambush the enemy in front of the Nerduo Gorge.

Another guerrilla general, Dayun, who was transferred from Gansu, led 2,000 Han cavalry to surround the canyon from both sides.

Taking the initiative this time was a bit risky, and the governor was not consulted.

As the war approached, Master Shi, who was solely responsible for Xining affairs, couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Daming had suffered two consecutive defeats before and could not afford to lose again.

He couldn't help but surrounded Lin Tailai and kept asking "Can it be done?"

Lin Tailai was annoyed by the question and replied: "I don't know if it will work. I won't know until after the fight!"

Mr. Shi almost jumped up, "You promised, you win!"

Lin Tailai sighed deliberately and nonchalantly: "It's up to people to plan things, but it's up to God to make things happen! If I lose, I will be dismissed as a doctor in the third department and become a Hanlin official."

Master Shi was immediately filled with anger, "Most of the Xining Guard's troops have been pulled out!

If you lose the battle and you still want to be dismissed from office, just commit suicide here and die for your country! "

Lin Tailai shouted: "Then why are you still thinking about all this? Just do it!"

"But..." Mr. Shi continued, "Even if Walata Bu Nang invades, wouldn't it be possible to defend and counterattack based on the Xining Acropolis?

After all, the risk of going dozens of miles out of the city to meet an attack is relatively high, and it is not enough to be cautious. "

Lin Tailai explained: "The terrain around Xining Acropolis is not convenient for setting up ambushes and outflanking, and it is difficult to inflict heavy damage on the captives.

Besides, if we can't leave the city and watch the captives plundering the surrounding areas, what's the point of holding on? "

Lord Shi came here to adjust his emotions after Lin Tai came here, and then went to inspect the military formation calmly.

The overall landform of Hehuang Land is very unique. Mountains and rivers are mixed together, resulting in many valleys and canyons.

Nerduo Gorge is the main transportation route from the south bank of the West Sea to Xining Acropolis, and it is also the only place that Walatab Nang must pass on its current marching route.

This time, three battalions of officers and soldiers set up positions here at the mouth of the gorge to block the thousands of main cavalry from Walatabunang.

Each battalion has 400 cavalry, 1,300 infantry, and 100 artillery pieces of all kinds.

Nowadays, the Ming army mostly uses chariot formations to deal with the captive cavalry.

The large vehicles are horizontal and the small vehicles are vertical, forming a circle. There are carbines in the open space between the vehicles. The infantry and gunners are covered in the vehicle array.

Especially in closed areas like the mouth of the gorge, it is more conducive to vehicle formations to block the attack.

After a round of inspection, Master Shi had new concerns, so he came to harass Lin Tai again and asked, "Will the Walat divination bag come?"

Lin Tailai replied: "Walata Bu Nang was born well and has always been proud and arrogant. He also defeated our army and has a very arrogant temperament.

Therefore, he will definitely come, and even if he sees that our army is on guard, he will not retreat easily. "

Everyone knows that there are 30,000 households in the northern barbarian right wing that became powerful under the leadership of Lao Anda, including the three major tribes of Tumut, Aoerdusi (Ordos), and Yongshaobu.

Among them, Yongshaobu is divided into two parts, one is in the east, and the other stayed in Qinghai after following Lao Anda to welcome the Buddha in Qinghai, guarding the holy land of Yanghua Temple.

Walata Bu Nang is the leader of the Bu tribe who stayed in Yongshao, Qinghai, and is also one of the three largest leaders who are causing trouble in the sea today.

So all in all, Walata Bu Nang and Bu Tu Jinong, who was dissatisfied with the horse market quota, were both relatives of Sanniangzi's husband's family.

Thinking of this, Lin Tailai couldn't help but sigh, these women are not merciless when selling relatives.

Those sold were all relatives with high nominal political status, "relatives of the emperor" at the level of princes.

Why does it feel a bit like Wu Zetian killing Li Tang's clan?

Forget it, stop complaining, it’s not easy for a woman to be in charge.

An hour later, the fighting started.

As Lin Tailai said, after the vanguard of the Walatab Nang army saw the Ming army blocking the gorge, Walatabunang, who was accustomed to running rampant, had no idea of ​​retreat and directly led his army to attack the formation.

Suddenly there was a loud sound of cannons and arrows flying.

The two sides fought for more than half an hour and fought for several rounds, but the Walatabunang army still did not push back the Ming army, let alone break the position.

This is normal. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for the cavalry to break through a well-prepared vehicle formation.

Just when the thousands of captive cavalry were exhausted and dismounted in large numbers to rest, suddenly the guerrilla general Dayun led 2,000 Han cavalry and came out from behind the canyon.

The gunfire from the front rang out again, pouring out all the last ammunition.

Lin Tailai, who had been watching for a long time, immediately got on his horse, and under the protection of his servants, he led 1,200 cavalry to press forward in a roundabout way, forming a front and rear pincer attack on the captive cavalry.

The thousands of fine knights who were blocked at the mouth of the canyon immediately collapsed and scattered in all directions to seize the road and flee.

The Ming army was not good at fighting the highly mobile Luqi, and it was difficult to achieve a perfect annihilation record.

Especially the leaders of the cavalry, even if they lose the battle, they can always escape under the desperate cover of their personal guards.

Looking at the achievements of the Ming army in later generations, we can always see words such as "the chieftain only escaped with his own body".

Lin Tailai used the spirit of beating a drowned dog and chased the large number of fleeing captives for twenty or thirty miles before calling for gold and withdrawing his troops.

According to preliminary statistics, more than 800 people were beheaded in this battle, which basically defeated the main force of the Walatab Nang tribe. It was regarded as the first major victory in Xihai in the past two years.

That night, Lin Tailai had a few drinks with Master Shi and guerrilla general Dayun to celebrate the victory.

This Dayun was also a famous general in the west in history. He defeated the pirates several times and made great contributions to eliminating major troubles in the west. He was promoted to the governor of the left and the chief military officer of Gansu.

Knowing that this person could fight, Lin Tailai felt confident and let Dayun attack from behind.

Today's great victory actually refers to and imitates Dayun's battle deployment in history.

Seeing that Lin Tailai seemed a little unhappy, Master Shi, who felt relaxed, asked, "What's wrong? Why are you sighing so much?"

Lin Tailai sighed: "Unfortunately, my martial arts skills are of little use in today's battle formations, and I cannot fight with a thousand enemies against ten thousand enemies.

It may also be that he has fought too many battles involving hundreds of people, and is not used to fighting such battles involving tens of thousands of people. "

Master Shi: "."

Do you, Lin Tailai, really think of yourself as a military general? Do you still want to think of yourself as Xiang Yu?

Dayun, an ancestral member of the Fan clan who has been Chineseized and whose name is Donglou, held the wine bowl and said regretfully: "Today's opportunity is very good, but it is a pity that the captive chief Walata Bu Nang escaped."

Then he cursed: "This group of shameless captive chiefs will run rampant once they gain power, but if they are defeated, they will often apologize and beg the court for forgiveness!"

Lin Tailai was about to chime in and say a few words, when suddenly Zuo Protector Zhang Wen walked into the tent and whispered to Lin Tailai softly: "There is someone looking for you outside, from Madam's side."

Lin Tailai frowned slightly and said to Master Shi and Dayun, "You two drink first, I'll be back soon."

Master Shi and Dayun didn't pay much attention, thinking that Lin Tailai had gone out to use the toilet.

After a while, Lin Tailai was seen striding back to the tent, but with one more thing in his hand.

Looking closer, it turned out to be a human head.

Dayun smiled and said: "Counsellor Lin, do you want to use this head to record merit?"

Lin Tailai said loudly: "This is the head of Walata's divination bag, and I captured it!"

Damn it! Dayun was shocked!

When they went into battle during the day, they found nothing, so the chieftain escaped.

Sitting here drinking at night, Lin Tailai was able to cut off the head of the chieftain from the air. What kind of mysterious power is this?

Damou has been in the army for twenty years and has never seen such a bizarre beheading.

Is this Valata divination fool a fool? He had obviously escaped from the battlefield, but he could still be beheaded?

Master Shi looked at Lin Tailai thoughtfully, he was indeed a contemporary Han Derang.

It is rumored that Lin Tailai can become a grand master immediately as long as he moves to Beilu. It seems that this rumor is true.

After coming back to his senses, Dayun immediately suggested: "We should take advantage of the fact that Walat's bag is dead, the main force has been defeated, and the remnant bandits are leaderless, we should continue to march and sweep the south bank of the West Sea in a large scale!"

After Lin Tailai thought for a while, he said to Dayun: "Just leave the matter of sweeping the south bank of the West Sea to Master Shi."

Da Yun was confused, so what was Da Yun doing?

Lin Tailai added: "The captives returning from the north to the east will pass through Gansu. I will follow and monitor them all the way, but there will be no generals accompanying them.

Commander Da was transferred from Gansu and is familiar with the situation in Gansu, so I would like to ask him to follow me. "

Dayun was reluctant, it was so satisfying to sweep the West Sea, and he could gain more credit by clearing out the remnants of the bandits.

The job of following and "escorting" captives out of the country is really boring.

But he was temporarily transferred from Gansu just to cooperate with Lin Tailai, the military counselor, and he could not refuse Lin Tailai's normal orders.

In Taozhou City, the new governor Zheng Luo, who was personally in charge here, summoned the newly appointed military commander Li Chengzhi and some newly transferred generals to discuss the situation.

“We must not be impatient at the moment, we must be steady, we can no longer afford to lose, so we must be conservative for the time being.

There is no need to take risks in the military, focus on political measures, give priority to defense, train soldiers, and repair border walls!

Use two to three years to recover, accumulate military strength, isolate the Hailu, and then attack from multiple directions to fight the Hailu! "

Governor Zheng was talking when he saw an officer from Camp Biao rush into the lobby and shouted:

"Urgent report from Xining! Great victory! The Xining guards set up an ambush to attack the Waratah Bu Nang tribe. They fought fiercely for half a day and beheaded more than 800 people. Lin Tailai, the military counselor, beheaded the chief Waratah Bu Nang!"

Governor Zheng: "."

This sounds very unreasonable and does not conform to my own strategic policy.

Everyone in the hall glanced at the governor, only to see the governor's face was stunned and motionless.

After a while, Governor Zheng came back to his senses and said to everyone: "Fortunately, we won. If we failed, we would be doomed!

If even the Acropolis of Xining is lost, then we have lost an arm!

Therefore, although it is a great achievement, this kind of risky behavior is still not encouraged by this department. "

Then Governor Zheng asked again: "Where is Lin Tailai?"

This kind of behavior of starting a war lightly is Lin Tailai's style at first glance. Neither Shi Jiancha nor Dayun has such courage.

The Chinese officer replied: "Lin Tailai has left Xining and followed the surveillance captives through Gansu and out of the country."

Governor Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. It is Lin Tailai's main task to send the captive gifts out of the country.

When Lin Tailai completes this task, he must be transferred back to his side as soon as possible. Lin Tailai cannot be left alone in an important frontline city.

It was very important for the Taolu to return to the desert via Gansu. Yu Zhizhen, the governor of Gansu who was stationed in the Hexi Corridor, also personally participated in the monitoring.

In Shuiquanbao, Military Counselor Lin Tailai met and held talks with Governor Yu.

Lin Tailai waved away the rest of the crowd and whispered: "Yu Zhongcheng, I have important news about Songlu.

But I think there is no need to report this matter to Governor Zheng. You must first agree to keep it confidential before I can tell you. "

Governor Yu: "."

You actually want to go behind the governor's back. What on earth do you, Lin Tailai, want to do?

Lin Tailai added: "I just think it's enough for you and me to share the work. There's no need for one more person."

A few days later, Lin Tailai, Governor Dayun and Governor Yu stood on Ganjun Mountain on the Gansu border. Looking north, they could already see a large number of captives.

"Commander Da, do you still regret it? Do you still want to stay in the West Sea and conduct raids?" Lin Tailai said calmly.

Dayun's face was full of disbelief: "No way? Are the members of Bu Shitu Ji Nong really here?

Do they really want to take advantage of the chaos of the Taoist crossing to rush across Hexi to the West Sea?

Counselor Lin, how did you know so accurately? "

Lin Tailai said impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense! It's all credit, so hurry up!"

Dayun said doubtfully: "Counsellor Lin won't personally participate in the battle?"

Lin Tailai stood with his hands behind his hands and sighed: "Life is really as lonely as snow.

No matter how hard I fight in battle, the achievement is not as good as killing a captive chieftain. I'd better wait here for the behead of Jiminong, the lost rabbit. "

Dayun: "."

If there are three major directions: Taohe, Gansu, and Xining, you Lin Tailai can handle two directions in one month.

If Huo Luochi, Zhentai Ji, Walata Bu Nang, Bu Shitu Jinong, and Qingba Du'er were the five great rebellious chiefs, you Lin Tailai could kill two of them in a month.

Then what else does the Governor do?