"May I ask the Great Khan, do you want to continue the western expedition to Tumut?"

cut out Huang Taiji's words, and stopped Tumen Khan on the spot.

Yes, in this situation, do you want to continue the westward expedition? Tumen Khan himself muttered in his heart.

Tumen Khan judged that he could march westward, mainly due to three considerations:

First, the Chahar headquarters is safe. The people of Chahar headquarters have retreated north, thousands of miles away from the border of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible for the Ming people to kill so far in any way - it is possible to change it in two hundred years, but it is absolutely impossible now.

In addition, there are three guards as a barrier, and the quick town of Inner Khalkha guards Chahanhot, no matter how you look at it, it is a foolproof situation.

Second, the westward conquest of Tumut has great interests. Tumut has been strong for decades, and has been trading with the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, which can be described as a solid family, if he can succeed in his westward expedition, even if Dayan Khan's division cannot be changed, but at least he can cut a large piece of meat from Xin Ai's hands.

In addition, it can also strengthen the authority of the Great Khan, although the Ordos Ministry is the hereditary Jinong, but Tumut is now the de facto leader of the 30,000 households on the right wing, there is no doubt about it. In other words, as long as Tumut submits, who of the 30,000 households on the right will dare to resist his own Great Khan? A recreation of the splendor of Dayan Khan's time is at hand.

The third is that the probability of success in the western conquest of Tumut is very high - of course, this is Tumen Khan's own opinion.

In Tumen Khan's view, my answer's division was very unreasonable, and he did not explain what happened after his death clearly, which led to the strength of Xin Ai Huang Taiji at hand was not as good as his nephew.

However, Xin Ai's prestige is certainly not comparable to Hannaji, let alone combat experience. In Tumen's opinion, if there is no external force to intervene, Xin Ai and Hannaji, the two uncles and nephews, should be evenly matched.

Normally, since the two of them are evenly matched, then the other forces within Tumut should remain neutral one after another, and see that they first divide the winners and losers, and then throw themselves into the strong, which is the rule and custom of the grassland.

So in this case, he, the Great Khan of all Mongolia, suddenly sent troops to help Xin Ai, how could Xin Ai not win?

Of course, Tumen Khan also knows that Hannaji now has Chataiji to help, but in Tumen Khan's opinion, this is a small problem, although Chataiji is a rare warrior, and even won the title of Jebe Marksman, but no matter how strong he is, he is also a human being, can he really be "ten thousand enemies"? There are only 3,000 of his troops, and the remaining 3,000 are the Great Khan's guards, and it is difficult to say whether they are willing to fight against Xin Ai Huang Taiji.

Even if you count the 6,000 men, plus the western outpost of Hannaji, there are less than 50,000 horses. The Chahar headquarters dispatched 60,000 iron horsemen this time, and with Xin Ai's full strength, he should be able to make up 30,000 horses, this is 90,000 iron horses, what is the difficulty of winning Hannaji?

It's just that I never expected Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang to send troops, and they were extremely fierce and decisive, especially Li Chengliang and Li Rusong, father and son.

Although Qi Jiguang only had a small battle with Changang, he was almost captured when he fought against Qi Jiguang in the second year of Changang's Wanli (historical fact), and this time he turned around and ran away directly with a little temptation, which was like Qi Jiguang's phobia. Changang's run has led to the loss of Daning now, and his retreat to the east has also been cut off - of course, the Mongols are not very afraid of this, and it is a big deal to detour.

The detour is a trivial matter, and if you go back to the northern line, you can first meet the troops of the Chahar headquarters, but the current situation is too ugly.

Duoyan Sanwei only has the fried flowers of the Liaohe Hetao, and the strength of the fried flowers is originally the weakest of the Duoyan Sanwei, and the activity area is also small. This is equivalent to the fact that Duoyan Sanwei has basically been lost, and if you have to calculate it according to the size of the region, this is almost equal to the size of the sum of the two towns of Liaodong or Xuanfu and Datong.

Although there is nothing in Chahanhot that is worth grabbing by the Ming people, what if Li Chengliang goes crazy, or wants to mix up a military feat that sounds great? The Han people like to "smash the Yellow Dragon" and think that it is a great achievement, what if Li Chengliang also wants to play such a play, and runs to take Chahanhot?

Although there is nothing to grab in Chahanhot, even if he is beaten down by Li Chengliang, it does not make the Tumen feel distressed, but after all, it is the grazing place of his Zasak Tutu Khan, and it is the theoretical "capital".

Besides, the land of the three guards of the flower can't be said to be lost, otherwise if you return to the east in the future, won't you face the army of the Ming people? If the Ming people really want to restore Daning Town, they still want to go south to loot in the future? I'm afraid I can only worry about Mingren hitting my door every day!

Since Kuden Khan moved eastward, the greatest achievement of the Chahar Department was to reconquer the Duoyan Sanwei, so that they became vassals of the Mongols again (themselves were also Mongols), if they were lost in their own hands, then even if the western expedition was successful, it seems that it would not necessarily strengthen the power of the Great Khan, after all, Tumut was only fighting for the throne of Chechen Khan internally, and did not say that he would disobey the Chahar Khan's court, and the loss of Duoyan Sanwei was a serious "land cut".

It's just that now the army has been dispatched, and it has just reached the westernmost point, and is about to enter Tumut, and now it has withdrawn without fighting, which does not seem to be very suitable......

Burihatu suddenly said: "Great Khan, the minister has some opinions on this matter. ”

Tumen Khan frowned, glanced at him, and said, "Say it." ”

"With the wisdom of the Great Khan, he must know the truth of 'opening the bow without turning back', if he gives up the western expedition at this time and turns back, it is tantamount to saying to the world that the Great Khan has been tricked - he has been tricked by the Ming people to transfer the tiger from the mountain." ”

Tumen Khan's face turned cold: "Tune the tiger away from the mountain? ”

"Not bad." Buzhihatu said calmly: "In the past, the Ming people often attacked the left and right flanks of Monan, and they were often indiscriminate and disorganized, but this time it is the opposite, and it has become extremely strategic, and even changed the style of acting in the past by a certain governor and a minister, and has become a comprehensive plan......"

"You have to be careful." Tumen Khan suddenly didn't want to pay attention to what Buzhhatu said hurt his self-esteem, but became cautious, hoping to hear more clearly.

"Obey." Buzhihatu nodded and said to the titular Great Yuan Emperor: "I don't know if the Great Khan has ever noticed that in the past, the Ming people used to defend against Mongolia, whether it was defensive or offensive, and it was decided by the governor of a certain place or even a governor of a certain place. ”

"For example, if the Governor of Jiliao suddenly wants to send troops, then whether he has an attempt against Duoyan Sanwei, or an attempt at the Chahar Ministry, or even an attempt at the Inner Khalkha, all he can do is to let Qi Jiguang send troops, or let Li Chengliang send troops, and it is great that Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang will send troops together. In addition, there will be no other Ming towns to help him, such as Xuanfu and Datong, they will definitely not cooperate with him to do anything, let alone Shanxi or the border towns further away, those border towns will think that this matter has nothing to do with them. ”

"This time, however, it was completely different." Burihatu looked at Tumen Khan, whose brows were furrowing deeper and deeper, and further analyzed: "The Great Khan might as well look back at what happened in Monan this time, in fact, it is one after another, interlocking, not only every step has a plan, but also every step has the possibility of changing at any time." ”

Tumen was a little confused and asked, "For example?" ”

"Let's analyze the Great Khan step by step." Burihatu found that although Tumen Khan had great ambitions, his brain reaction did not seem to be fast, and it was estimated that he was either ambitious and talented, or "wise and late" (from Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu, Xun Yu Yu Jia Xu Biography", "Fu Chen Gong is wise but late", which means that there is a plan but it comes slowly, and it takes a long time to think carefully about things before it can be deduced), and now the matter is urgent, so I have to help him analyze it quickly.

Buri Hatu said: "The cause of this incident in Monan is naturally the death of Tumut Chechen Khan, and the actions of the Ming people, in hindsight, it can be found that they were premeditated, and they were by no means temporary intentions and temporary decisions. ”

"Oh? The Ming people had long known that Alatan Khan (Altan Khan's Mongolian saying) was going to die? Tumen was a little surprised, because he didn't even know about it.

"No one thought of this before, but judging from the actions of the later Ming people, it is true." Burihatu sighed: "Let's not talk about how the Akito knows, maybe they have just been waiting for such an opportunity, let's see how the Akito responds first." ”

"Well, yes, you go on." Tumen are glad that Buzhhatu has been able to distinguish the main points.

Buri Hatu said: "The day after the Emperor of the Zhu family learned of my Ebuge's death, he made a series of arrangements, namely: specially appointed Gao Shi as the envoy with full power for the affairs of the King of Shunyi, and went north to preside over all matters related to the canonization;

The edict ordered Zheng Luo, the governor of Xuanda, to transfer troops to protect the envoys and cooperate with the canonization;

The edict ordered Gao Wenjian, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, to guard the border pass and cooperate with the canonization matters;

The edict ordered Wanquan Dusi (Xuanfu), Shanxi Xingdu Si (Datong), Shanxi Dusi (Shanxi) and other towns to mobilize troops and horses to respond at any time;

The edict ordered Liang Menglong, the governor of Jiliao, Qi Jiguang, the chief soldier of Jizhen, and Li Chengliang, the chief soldier of Liaodong, and other border town officials to be on guard at all times, monitor the movements of our Mongolian Chahar, Duoyan, Taining and other departments, and report at any time. ”

Because of the bad relationship between the left-wing Mongols and the Ming Dynasty, Tumen Khan learned very little information about the Ming Dynasty, which was far less easy than that of the Tumut side - their Tumuts could trade at the border gates, and by the way, they could see the Ming Dynasty's newspaper, and the Ming Dynasty's newspaper would copy the holy decree. So at least this information on the surface, as long as you are willing to collect it, you will definitely be able to analyze something.

Of course, there are very few people among the Mongols who think so politically, but Buzhhatu happens to be one of them.

When Tumen Khan heard this, his face turned ugly, and he said in a deep voice: "This little emperor issued so many holy decrees the next day, and almost all the towns on the nine sides were ordered once?" Then he frowned and said, "Moreover, he asked the governors, governors, and general soldiers of several towns to cooperate with Gao Shipra?" If Ben Khan remembers correctly, although this Gao Pragmatic is Gao Gong's nephew and what kind of champion is it, his official position is not high, right? Will the Governors be able to listen to him? ”

Burihatu said: "High pragmatism is not as good as the weak crown, the official position, it seems that it is indeed not too high, the minister forgot how many grades he is, but it must be at most five grades." However, he is not just the 'nephew of Gao Gong and the champion of the six heads' as the Great Khan said, but more importantly, he has been the companion of the little emperor of Wanli for ten years and watched the government...... It can be said that if the little emperor of Wanli has one of his closest ministers in his heart, then this person must be highly pragmatic. ”

Tumen Khan frowned and said, "Do you mean to say that this series of accidents in Mo Nan was actually done by this little guy who is less than twenty years old?" ”

Buzhhatu said categorically: "Exactly! ”

Tumen stared into his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Tell me your reasons." ”

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