Because of the butterfly effect brought by Wang Yuan, Dayan Khan was directly killed in the Battle of Yingzhou, and the main force of the Chahar Department directly under him suffered heavy casualties.

This leads to a series of changes!

The right-wing Mongols drove the left-wing Mongols out of Mobei ten years ahead of schedule, and the Chahar tribe also moved eastward ahead of schedule.

Dayan Khan's fourth son, Arsuborot, also known as I Zhehuang Taiji, was originally the leader of Tumut, and became the leader of Yongsheb because of the failure of the struggle for power.

Although the Yongshebu tribe belonged to the right-wing Mongols, it now became a buffer force for the left-wing Mongols. It's just that the leader Arsuborot is the fourth uncle of the Mongol Great Khan (left wing) and deputy Khan (right wing), and his strength is still relatively weak.

A few years ago, he teamed up with the right-wing Mongols to invade Datong and Yansui. After Datong was deflated one after another, he teamed up with the left-wing Mongolian to enter the Kou Wanquan Division, and this year he went to fight Duoyanwei together.

When the two departments of Ordos and Tumut were destroyed, poor Duoyanwei was gone.

Today, the entire Northeast Plain is occupied by the left-wing Mongols, fifteen years earlier than in history. The reason for this is that Duo Yanwei was disabled by Wang Yuan, and the left-wing Mongolia was also hurt by Wang Yuan.

Arsu returned triumphantly and was in a very happy mood.

Although Arsu did not get any territory in the Northeast Plain, he received a lot of livestock and people. At the same time, the Chahar Ministry was willing to cede Ulanqab as a new pasture for the Yongshebu Division, and the territory of the Yongshebu Department was almost directly doubled.

Time was short, and Arsu hurried with his livestock and population to get back to his territory before winter arrived.

"Ten thousand households!"

More than a dozen Yongshebu cavalry rushed forward and reported in panic: "The Tumut tribe was attacked by the Han people, and the veterans have been killed in battle, and more than 2,000 Tumut cavalry have come to join us. ”

As soon as you hear it, you know that it is outdated news, and this belongs to the first messenger.

Arsu didn't take it too seriously, and only asked his subordinates to speed up the march. He was even a little gloating, because the two nephews in the loop had always had little respect for the fourth uncle. His fourth uncle, who used to be in Hetao, was also the leader of the Tumut tribe, and was driven out by his two nephews.

The bosses are all dead, they deserve it!

Arsu has doubled his territory this time and plans to go back to his business. If the Ming army can go to the Hetao to sneak attack a few more times and kill the deputy Khan Yuda, maybe Arsu can also annex the Hetao.

A few more days passed, and a messenger came again: "Wanhu, Hetao has been robbed by the Han people, and thousands of people have come to join us in Ordos and Tumut. ”

"The loop is gone?"

Arsu was shocked, he only wanted the Ming army to weaken the two nephews, but he didn't want the Ming army to eat the two nephews directly, so he hurriedly asked: "How many people are coming from the Ming army?" ”

The messenger shook his head and said, "I can't tell, some say twenty or thirty thousand, some say seventy or eighty thousand, and some say that the Han army is 300,000." ”

Arsu finally became anxious: "Leave a thousand horsemen and continue to escort the livestock and population, and the rest of the warriors will rush back with me!" ”

Yong Xie Bu sent 8,000 horsemen to attack Duoyanwei with the Chahar department. This is almost equivalent to the exhaustion of the elite, and the remaining cavalry in his family is far inferior to the cavalry of Daming Border Town.

After a few more days of speeding up, the messenger came again to report: "Wanhu, Maihutu (Xuandewei) has been occupied by the Han Chinese!" ”

Arsu's face changed drastically: "The whole army only brings five days' rations, hurry up and return to the army with me!" Someone came and told the Chahar tribes, and they said that the Yongshebu tribes had asked them for help. ”

It was useless to ask for help, and the left-wing Mongols had just destroyed Duoyanwei and occupied the entire Northeast Plain. First, people are sleepy and tired, second, they are busy migrating, and third, winter is coming, how can they have time to rescue Yongshebu Ministry?

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The hometown of Xuandewei is Liangcheng County, and the Mongolians call it Maihutu, which means "Citrus Beach".

Citrus aurantium is a drought-tolerant plant that is the last to die if the grassland degenerates into a desert. This kind of grass, cattle and horses are not eaten, but can be used to weave, for the Mongolians, citrus aurantium grass is equivalent to the role of wicker, bamboo strips.

Xuandewei is located in the Daihai Basin, with Matou Mountain in the south and Manhan Mountain in the north, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and by water on one side, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Daihai belongs to the saltwater lake, can also boil salt, the Northern Wei Dynasty called "salt pond".

This place was very important, as long as the Ming army occupied it, it stuck half of the passage to the east of the Hetao. The other half of the passage is on the left and right of Datong.

From the Hetao to the east, there is a valley about several hundred meters wide.

Yong Xie Bubu was afraid that the Ming army would kill him, so he organized Han serfs in advance and brought earth and stones from the mountains to build a barrier here.

However, in the valley of hundreds of meters, the Mongols lacked construction craftsmen, and even scarce tools for mining mountain stones. After more than half a month of work, this barrier is only as high as a thigh, and it doesn't look too strong.

Yuan Da and Zheng Hu each brought 3,000 musketeers and 4,000 mounted sergeants to help them carry some food and ammunition.

The distance is about 800 miles, and the war horses are cherished all the way, and the marching speed is not very fast.

Seeing this temporary barrier, Zheng Hu laughed: "These Mongolians, do they want to kill me with laughter, and then take advantage of the chaos to cover up and kill?" ”

Yuan Da also smiled and said: "There are 30,000 households in the Mongolian right wing, and the relationship is cold. Let's fight the Ordos and Tumut tribes, but the Yongshebu tribes did not come to the rescue, but rushed to build this ridiculous stone wall. Why is that? ”

"What else? I'm afraid of us. Zheng Hu lifted the musket and slowly reloaded the ammunition.

Yuan Da put down the clairvoyant mirror and said: "I am indeed afraid of us, but it is not that we are afraid of powerful firearms, but that their main force is not at home at all." Otherwise, the Yong Xie Bu Department would have sent troops long ago and rushed to the Hetao to rescue! ”

Zheng Hu scratched his head: "That's the truth." ”

The two of them brought 10,000 cavalry here, and they had already been discovered by the Yongshebu tribe, and seven or eight thousand Mongols stood behind the stone wall with bows and arrows. Moreover, the number of young and strong people is not very large, only about a thousand, and the rest are all old and weak women and children, and even women are drawing bows and guarding.

Why has Duo Yanwei been beaten by Warat and Tatar in turn for decades?

It is because when Warat and Tatar invaded the border of the Ming Dynasty, Duoyanwei always went to raid other people's nests, and robbed the goods and livestock by bullying the old and weak women and children. This practice was very offensive, and all the nearby Mongolian tribes were united, and they would rather not rob the Ming Dynasty, but beat Duoyanwei down.

Duo Yanwei's commotion was naturally supported by the Ming court. Therefore, although Duoyanwei rebelled many times, when he was about to be exterminated, Da Ming always lent a helping hand.

Now, it is Yuan Da and Zheng Hu's turn to copy the nest of the Yong Xie Bu Department.

"The firecracker cavalry dismounted, General Li and General Liang are ready to charge!"

Six thousand musketeers, instantly transformed into musket infantry. There was no need to fire a volley either, because the Mongols, hiding behind a thigh-high stone wall, were more effective for musketeers to shoot freely.

Li Jin and Liang Zhen, who did not make a big achievement, each brought 2,000 cavalry this time, which belonged to the auxiliary force of the musket cavalry.

"Bang bang bang!"

Gunfire erupted and was chaotic.

Kuai Laosan aimed at a Mongolian young man, and the other party only had his shoulders and head leaking outside. Bang, pull the trigger, and the target falls in response.

As a rare sharpshooter in southern Liaoning, after Kuai Laosan got the rifled gun, he could shoot sparrows from ten zhang away, and it was very easy to hit people at a distance of twenty zhang.

Unfortunately, the number of sharpshooters is scarce, and among the 6,000 people, there are only a few dozen or so.

The Mongols behind the stone wall were very uncomfortable, and they all used horse bows, and twenty zhang was out of range. Now, they can only be beaten passively, and the Ming army fired freely for a few minutes, and the Mongols were beaten so that they did not dare to raise their heads.

"Stop the firecracker!"

"Cavalry charge!"

The cavalry of the four thousand border towns, under the command of Li Jin and Liang Zhen, took advantage of the gap between the Mongols being suppressed by firepower, and suddenly rushed towards the stone wall. When you get close, you immediately throw arrows, and then dismount with your sword and climb over the stone wall.

The thigh-high stone wall can be climbed with a jump, and the four thousand Ming troops instantly slaughtered into the pile.

Of these seven or eight thousand Mongols, only 1,000 are young and strong, and the rest are all old and weak, women and children, and their melee weapons are also very backward. The 4,000 Ming army was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and only paid single-digit casualties before killing the enemy to the ground.

After retreating from the enemy, they did not pursue, but cooperated with friendly forces to tear down the stone wall.

More than ten minutes later, 10,000 Ming cavalry poured in from the gap in the stone wall and went straight to the old city of Xuandewei.

The Xuande Acropolis has been completely abandoned, and the rammed earth walls have collapsed in many places. These Mongol and Han serfs were scattered in the basin pastures and near the lake, where the terrain was flat and full of arable land.

"Give back my father's life!"

Yong Xie Bu's people were running for their lives, and a Han man with a straw rope tied to his hands and feet suddenly pounced on his master, who was cleaning up. The other serfs in the family also sacrificed their lives to attack, attacking with their teeth as weapons.

Although their feet are tied to straw ropes, they can walk in small steps, which is also how they are usually bound for farming.

If we say that the Han people in the Hetao area, there are some who fled on their own initiative. Then the Han people here are all plundered by the Mongols, and they all have a blood feud.

There are nearly 5,000 Han serfs here alone!

Liu Daliang pounced on an old Mongolian man, biting the other party's throat so hard that his face was covered in blood when he got up. Snatching the old Mongolian's scimitar, Liu Daliang cut the straw rope between his feet, and then raised his knife to kill another Mongolian, saving the Han man who had been cut in the shoulder.

"Young Master!" The Hermes-Epitek cried and laughed.

Six years ago, Liu Daliang was still a Daming Gongsheng, and he was a Nagong Sheng. That is, there is no hope for Xiucai to be promoted, so he donated money and grain to become a prisoner of the country, waiting to be assigned by the imperial court to be a miscellaneous petty official.

Those who can donate money to become tribute students must be wealthy at home.

Liu Daliang took the scholar and went home to mourn, when he encountered the Mongols going south to plunder. The old people and children in the family were all killed by the Mongols, and the young men and women were taken away to become serfs.

Liu Daliang is 42 years old this year, his father, uncle, aunt, and young son were all killed, and his wife, brother, sister-in-law, eldest son, nephew, and daughter were snatched away. The relatives who were snatched away have long been separated, only the scholar is still around, and the master and servant are divided into the same herdsmen's household.

"Han family boy, follow me to take revenge!"

Liu Daliang took the scholar and brandished a scimitar to intercept and kill the Mongols along the way, helping and collecting the Han compatriots. When the Ming cavalry came after him, hundreds of people had gathered around him, covered in blood: "Liu Daliang, Gongsheng of Huairen County, meet the general, thank you for saving your life!" ”

Liang Zhen nodded approvingly: "Good man, come with me." ”

Liang Zhen took Liu Daliang to see Yuan Da: "General Zhao, there is a Liu surnamed Gongsheng here, who has led the Han people to slash countless Tatar thieves. ”

Yuan Da immediately said: "Liu Gongsheng, you immediately collect the Han people, and the Han people here will be handed over to you to manage." The battlefield will also be left to you to clean up, and you will clear out all the goods, grain, and livestock, and keep half of it for military rations, and you will distribute the remaining half for yourself. ”

"Obey military orders!" Liu Daliang hugged his fists.

Here was thrown to Hermes-Epitek, and Yuan Da immediately began to pursue. After raiding another pasture in front, the 10,000 cavalry immediately divided into two teams, one team went south to recover the homeland of the left guard and right guard of Datong, and the other team went north to attack the territory of the Chahar department.

Yuan Da's idea was more radical, not only to complete Wang Yuan's task, but also to play two games with the left-wing Mongol tribes.

As a result, when I came to Ulanqab, I found that the pastures here were empty.

When the Chahar tribe attacked Duoyanwei, they directly dragged their families and marched with their mouths, packing up and migrating the entire tribe to the Northeast Plain. As for the vacated pastures, they were thrown to the Yongshebu tribe as a gift, which was the reward for the Yongshebu tribe to help fight the war.

Yuan Daxing rushed north, but he didn't even catch a single hair, and the empty pasture couldn't grab grain. The military rations he carried with him were no longer enough, and he was about to go back to replenish them, when he happened to meet the main force of Yongshebu who hurried back.

After the division of the Ming army, there were 3,000 muskete cavalry and 2,000 cavalry in border towns.

The main force of the Yongshebu Division, more than 8,000 Mongolian cavalry.

Both sides were close to the rations, and they didn't bring any baggage, and they were tired enough from the long march.

Cavalry against cavalry, surrounded by prairies, enough for both sides to have fun.