The swansong of the swansong

Chapter 101 Blitzkrieg

"Your Majesty, I, Yinyu, respectfully greet you!"

Kangxi didn't look at Yinyou who was kneeling on the ground, but turned around and gave instructions to Zhang Tingyu.

"Chen Heng, please issue the decree!"

"Yes."

"There is a secret decree." Zhang Tingyu held the secret decree in his hand and gently reminded Yinyou to pay attention to the etiquette of receiving the decree.

Yinyou knelt down obediently and listened to the announcement.

"Imperial decree: The leader of the right wing of the Ujumchin Banner of the Inner Jasak Mongols, Prince Uhando, has been plotting something illegal... The fifteenth son of the Emperor, Prince Yinyu, is ordered to lead a thousand guards... to suppress the rebellion... I decree this."

"Your son Yinyu accepts your order and thanks you for your grace."

After Yinyu received the order, Kangxi said expressionlessly: "If you succeed, the promise of Jiangnan will be entirely up to you. If you fail like a lost dog, you will be stripped of your title and sent back to the Shangshufang to study."

During the early Qing Dynasty, special emphasis was placed on military merit, and rewards and punishments were extremely clear.

Judging a hero by his success or failure, if he succeeds, he will enjoy a good life, but if he fails, his title and real power will be lost, which seems very cruel.

If you win the battle, you will be a meritorious official, and you are allowed to loot for three days. All the spoils will belong to whoever grabs them.

If you lose the fight, you are like a rotten tree that cannot be carved. Go back to the capital and continue to be your little invisible prince!
"Khan Father, I will definitely spread the power of the Qing army on the border. If I fail, I will die for the country!" Although it was the first time that Yinwei led troops to fight, for more than 1000 days and nights, what he had been thinking about day and night was to gain control of the military power.

"Go, the troops prepared for you are stationed in the nearby valley, and Wu Shi will take you there." Kangxi waved his hand, signaling to Yinyou, "Take care of yourself and don't let me down."

"I'll take my leave." Yinyou took three steps back before turning around and walking out.

Unexpectedly, just as Yinyu walked to the door, Kangxi suddenly remembered the adorable childish smile of the Eighteenth Old Man. His heart softened, and he called Yinyu, "Come back."

"I will simply grant your wish and give you two hundred Sauron cavalrymen from the Eight Banners. No more."

He even gave him the Sauron cavalry, which was truly feared by the world. At this moment, Yinyu was truly very moved.

"I bow to my father Khan and thank him for his grace."

"Go ahead. I'm waiting for you to show the might of the Qing army in the desert!"

After bidding farewell to Kangxi, under the guidance of Wu Shi, Yinyou found the first army that obeyed his orders in the valley.

"I am Setu, the first lieutenant of the Plain White Banner Guards. I wish you the best of health, Master Fifteen."

"I am the third lieutenant commander of the Saolong Battalion of the Eight Banners of Dasheng. I am Haicha, and wish you the best of health, Master Fifteen."

Inside the military tent, Yinyu held up the golden edict high, stood in the middle, and formally accepted the military salutes from his two subordinates.

After taking over the military power, Yinyou sat on the chair, with Setu and Haicha sitting on his left and right.

As the saying goes, food and supplies must be sent before troops move forward.

"Setu, how much food and fodder have been stored?"

The Sauron soldiers only cared about fighting in the battlefield and didn't care about logistics, so Yinyou asked Setu first.

Setu bowed and introduced: "Reporting to the Fifteenth Master, we have already stored military rations for a month and a half..."

Yinyou did not interrupt and patiently let Setu finish his words.

To be honest, the logistical material preparations that Setu described are no different from those in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

Although the army had prepared sufficient food and fodder, they still needed to collect firewood and make fires for cooking along the way.

As long as a fire is lit, black smoke will be emitted, which will definitely alarm the nearby herdsmen.

In addition, the dry food prepared by Setu was mostly beef jerky that was difficult to chew.

This thing is a test of the strength of teeth. It is difficult to chew and even harder to swallow.

"Yuzhu, take your people to the nearby market town and find all the cooks and firemen who run noodle shops. Remember, if you work for me, you will get five taels of silver per person per day."

"Yes." Yuzhu responded with great excitement. If he could achieve military merit this time, he would most likely get a title.

"Li Ding, go back and distribute all the 10,000 taels of silver that I brought with me to everyone. Five taels for each guard, and twenty-five taels for each person in the Solon camp. When you win the battle and rob the silver, return it to me."

How can you lead the troops if you are not kind to them?

In those days, the three upper banners' bondservants only received a monthly salary of five taels of silver. Apart from the extra rewards, they had no other income.

As soon as Yinyou entered the room, he gave each guard an extra month's salary. For a moment, there was thunderous cheers outside the tent.

The idle soldiers under his command who are not serving in the army have no income at all, and most of the guards' families are so poor that they cannot afford to eat meat!

As the saying goes, an emperor has no need for hungry soldiers.

Yinyou, who generously donated money for the expedition, initially won everyone's favor.

As for the 200 Saurons being given 5000 taels of silver, Setu didn't have much objection.

Because the Saurons are so brutal and good at fighting, the Guard Battalion is really no match for them.

Damn, Setu saw with his own eyes that Haicha picked up the bloody raw beef and bit into it directly, eating it with relish.

After Yuzhu found a dozen noodle shop chefs, Yinyou asked them to set up a large iron wok and prepare to make pancakes.

In the past, Yinyu's grandfather was from Shandong and had served as a cook squad leader in the Volunteer Army. The pancakes he baked would last for ten days or half a month.

There is a trick to make pancakes last longer: knead the dough with boiling salt water and let it rise properly.

The dough is mixed with boiling water and the pancakes made are softer in texture, not as hard as iron and difficult to swallow.

In addition, the pancakes must be baked at high temperature to control the moisture in the pancakes as much as possible. Yinyu calculated that it was about 300 kilometers from Rehe to the enemy's base.

Of course, this is just a rough estimate and cannot be too precise.

Kangxi assigned Yinyu dozens of guides, which made it easy for Yinyu to learn Huo Qubing's assault tactics.

Led by a guide who is familiar with the terrain, a light assault can catch the enemy off guard, often resulting in the greatest results with the least losses.

In fact, compared with the Führer's blitzkrieg, Huo Qubing's tactics were just replacing war horses with tanks.

After Yinyou taught the chefs how to make pancakes, he used his position as the Grand Eunuch to "borrow" more than 300 carts from the Imperial Household Department.

As for the war horses, Yinyou doesn't need to worry too much about them.

Because, whether it is the Guard Camp or the Sauron Camp, the standard configuration is one person and three horses.

This was the huge bonus that the Qing Dynasty gained from conquering the Mongolia south of the Gobi Desert. In the early Qing Dynasty, there was no shortage of military horses. As many as they needed, they had.

If the Northern Song Dynasty had lost its horse source, haha, Yinyu's desire to learn Huo Qubing's lightning tactics would be a daydream.

The day before departure, Yinwei personally went out and extorted a large amount of horse feed and black beans from his subordinates in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

As the saying goes, a horse cannot grow fat without night grass.

If war horses going out to fight do not supplement with black beans, they will quickly become weak.

If anyone dares to report the boss who is extorting money to Kangxi, he must be tired of living!
After everything was ready, Yinyou took advantage of the thick night and led his small troops and disappeared without a trace.

This was Yinyu's first battle, and he was almost abnormally harsh in his work of scouting the enemy.

The Saurons are natural hunters in the wild. Only by letting them go out for reconnaissance can Yinyu get enough sleep at night.

When camping at night, Yinyou placed the borrowed carts in a chain at the outermost edge of the camp to guard against possible enemy night attacks.

In order to be absolutely safe, a layer of sandbags was covered on the top of the cart to prevent rockets.

To be honest, Kangxi really loved his own son, and the dozens of guides he provided were all familiar with the route.

Under the guidance of the guide, Yinwei led his small troops and traveled day and night. It only took five days to reach the vicinity of the enemy camp.

At this critical juncture, the advantages of the professional hunters, the Saurons, were fully demonstrated.

As for the scattered herdsmen we met along the way, alas, one general’s success is built on the bones of thousands of soldiers!

If Yinyu was not ruthless and let the enemy smell the scent and run away in advance, then he would have to roll back to the Shangshufang and play the role of a background board like an insignificant prince again.

Haicha's body was covered in bloodstains, but Yinyou pretended not to see it.

Everything is for winning, nothing else matters!

War is cruel. Either you die or I die. There is no room for leniency.

However, when they were about fifty miles away from the enemy, they took the initiative to stop and camp on the spot to rest.

The motto of staying calm in times of crisis always reminded Yinyou that the closer he was to the enemy, the more cautious he needed to be.

An eighty-year-old mother absolutely cannot afford to kill her child.

Before night fell, the scattered Sauron people returned in batches.

They brought back an unexpected news to Yinyu: the enemy was not two thousand people, but five thousand people.

Setu was afraid and suggested, "Master Fifteen, the enemy is strong, why don't we ask the emperor for reinforcements?"

Yinyu knew that the glamorous world of Beijing had corrupted Setu's body and mind, causing him to lose the bravery he had when the Qing army entered the pass.

Haicha did not back down, but his remarks left Yinyou speechless.

"Fifteenth Master, the Commander-in-Chief has promised us that if we perform great merit, each of us will be exempted from the fur tax for three years."

Yinyou understood immediately that although the Saurons were extremely ferocious, they were just country bumpkins who had never seen the world.

Just three years of fur taxes made them travel thousands of miles to work for the Qing Dynasty.

Old revolutionaries always encounter new problems.

Faced with unexpected enemies that were several times more numerous than him, Yinyu could only resort to crooked tactics.

"Prepare for a night attack on the enemy camp!" Yinyu said coldly with a stern face: "If anyone dares to shrink back, all male members of the family will be exiled to Ningguta and become slaves to the armored men. They will never be pardoned and return to the capital! The wives, daughters and sisters will all be enslaved in the Xinzheku."

If someone else had said this, Setu would definitely not believe it.

However, since the harsh words came from Yinyu's mouth, Setu had no choice but to believe them!

When we meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins!

After dark, Yinyu strictly prohibited the lighting of torches, and everyone followed the sides of the carriage.

If you act in the dark without a guide who is familiar with the terrain, you will most likely get lost.

However, God bless Yinyou. Kangxi was really reluctant to let his own son die on the Mongolian grasslands, so the guides he gave him were all experts.

When it was just getting light, Yinwei and his men reached within ten miles of the enemy camp.

However, Yinyou did not act rashly, he was waiting for someone.

PS: The second update is here. I will continue to write more updates and try to have them in the early morning!

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