Tsakhhot, the current "capital" of the "Great Mongolia".

This is also a city, an earthen city. This city is not too big, and it is a little stronger than the city of Totoku, and it is definitely not as good as the city of Dabansheng, nor is it as good as the city of naturalization.

However, it is still the capital of the Great Mongolian State, because the khans of the Great Mongolian State, the Zasaktu Khantu, are stationed here, and the Chahar tribe, known as the "Central Chahar Wanhu", is also the guardian of the place.

Regarding the meaning of the word "Chahar", according to Mongolian literature, "Chahar" is an ancient Turkic language, meaning "the guard of the Khan's palace", and the full name is "Hao Chen Chahaner", whose origin in Mongolia is the subjects of Genghis Khan's youngest son Tulei and his wife Ruheteni.

Chahar is a very special part of the Mongol tribes, and his tribal democracy began with Genghis Khan's creation of the Tiche Army, that is, the standing Janissary Army. After the cowardly Xue system was established, it was revived in the period of Dayan Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and established the Great Khan's Guard, that is, the Chahar Department. In the original history, after the failure of Lin Dan Khan's resistance to Jin, the Chahar tribe was scattered and declined.

Genghis Khan's cowardly army was gathered by the essence of the Mongolian nation at that time, and it was the Great Khan's escort army composed of people with good conduct, strong martial arts and dignified appearance selected from the heads of ten thousand households, thousands of households, hundreds of households and the sons of free men in accordance with Genghis Khan's will. In the war, the cowardly Xue army has a very strong combat effectiveness, is the mainstay of Genghis Khan's army, strong and persistent, invincible, invincible, for Genghis Khan to unify the Mongolian tribes, west expedition to Khorezm, south expedition to Western Xia, Jin established immortal feats.

Although the Xue system has long been ancient, the spirit of the Xue army has long become an important part of the core spirit of Mongolian culture, and has been inherited and carried forward in the Great Khan Guard Army established by Dayan Khan, which led to the emergence of the Central Chahar Wanhu. The Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, such as Tokhtobuhua, Mandulu, Dayan Khan, etc., all directly ruled Chahar Wanhu.

In the early years, after the Mongol expedition to the west, the Chahar tribe was originally stationed in the Altai Mountains, and later Dayan Khan reunified the Mongolian tribes and divided the princes to rule 60,000 households on the left and right wings. At that time, Dayan Khan was stationed in Chahar, the head of the 30,000 households on the left wing, and ruled the whole of Mongolia.

The Great Khan directly commanded the Chahar Wanhu, therefore, the Chahar Department became the suzerainty in the orthodox position, and became the center of the Mongolian ministries, and its Khan was the "co-master" of the Mongolian tribes, and the Chahar lord inherited the Mongolian Khan, and then experienced a total of six main Great Khans in the original history.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the continuous infighting of the Tumut Ministry, the Chahar Ministry, once dominated Monan. After the rise of the Later Jin, Nurhachi adopted the means of armed strikes and political co-optation to divide and disintegrate the Mongol tribes. When Nurhachi went south, Lin Dan Khan of Chahar fought to the death with him, until Lin Dan Khan was defeated and died in the big grass beach in Gansu.

The following year, his son, Erke Kongol, surrendered under the siege of the Later Jin. From then on, the orthodox Khan power of Mongolia was seized by the Jurchens, and the Mongols all over the world did not have the Great Khan of their own nation.

At present, the Mongols do not know their "future" situation, and they do not have much respect for their own people, and they do not even have much affection. Even the inner and outer Khalkha tribes, who were nominally obedient to Tumen Khan, were in fact often obedient to his will.

As for Tumut, it is not to mention that if it were not for the fear of annexation by Altan in the past, the Chahar would not have moved eastward.

It was not until the fourth year of Wanli that Tumen Khan used the "five consuls" system to establish the authority of the Great Khan a little, and by the way, he was disgusted by the way, so that he had to send his eldest grandson Pullik to Chahanhot to be the so-called ruler.

In that year, Tumen Khan convened all the 10,000 households in Eastern Mongolia to formulate the "Tumen Khan Code", which was promulgated throughout Mongolia, and instructed the left-wing Chahar Wanhu Amudai Hongtaiji, the Khalkha Wanhu Sujianghai, the right-wing Ordos Wanhu to cut the end of the Huangtaiji, the Yongshebu Wanhu Asuut Department of the dumb fire Luochiduer, and the Tumut Wanhu to rule according to the law.

This was intended to reunify Mongolia and restore the power of the Great Khan, who was revered as Zasaktu Khan.

However, that's all, the five consuls in Chahanhot are actually soy sauce, and there is not much that they need to "govern".

In fact, if you think about it, you can know that the habits of the Mongols, whether speaking works first depends on whether the fist is big or not, these five consuls only have brains and are born in Chahar, and the tribes of the other four people are thousands of miles away, and they can't borrow it at all, so naturally speaking will have no effect.

Over time, the other four rulers basically received their salaries in name and ate in Chahanhot and waited for death.

As for the big brain, he was born in the Kashketeng Division, one of the eight battalions of Chahar. This tribe was first owned by Dayan Khan's sixth son, Uzirborot, and later hereditary.

The grazing land of the Keshiketeng Department is about 2,500 miles away from the border wall of Jizhou. It can be seen that this department is probably the northernmost part of the Chahar Wanhu pastoral land.

"Keshike" also means "cowardly", which here means "on duty", and Keshiketeng means "on duty". Therefore, this Keshiketeng unit is the escort duty unit, which is on duty in shifts. The members of the escort army come from the sons of the heads of 10,000 households and thousands of households, and the tasks are heavy and the salaries are very high.

By the way, this Keshiketeng tribe was loyal to the Great Khans of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and after the Ezhe Konggol was lowered in the original history, it was led by the descendants of Genghis Khan, Shalaleta, to reduce the gold, becoming the last tribe in Monan to reduce gold.

Since he is loyal, the "nature of his work" in the Five Consuls is obvious: he is the spokesman of the Great Khan.

For example, at today's meeting of the Five Consuls, the brainy job is to try to get the Great Khan of Tumen to obtain the legal name of westward expansion into Tumut.

It stands to reason that as the Great Khan of all Mongolia, it should be reasonable and legal for Tumen to go to any part of Mongolia, even if he wants to take care of the face of the local lord, then he should only need the consent of Talik, who appeared here on behalf of Tumut, and he can go to Tumut.

But it's not.

If you look at the regions represented by the five consuls, you can see that except for the big brains of Chahar and the speed of Khalkha, the other three people represented Tumut, Ordos, and Yongshebu are all from right-wing Mongolia, and before his death, they were all people who listened to his greetings.

And now, after leaving a small number of his subordinates for Xin Ai, Yongshebu has gone to Qinghai, thousands of miles away from Chahar, and they cannot be afraid of the Tumen at all, but because they want to fight against Warat and other tribes, they must win the support of Tumut - because Tumut controls the mutual market, which is the source of their supply of all kinds of materials except cattle, sheep and horses, and they cannot be offended at all.

As I said before, he is the nephew of Aldos, and he is also the main person who advocates for Ordos to obey Tumut. The reason why he chose this way was because of his strength and prestige, and because the power of mutual trade was in the hands of Tumut.

I had previously analyzed the situation in Hetao, because there was a large desert in that place, and the rest of the land could not do anything other than grazing, so Ordos now needed the supplies of the Ming Dynasty more urgently than Tumut, who owned Fengzhou Beach. Comparatively speaking, if Tumut has no mutual market, the population may be reduced by one-third, and the hegemony of Monan may be lost, while if Ordos has no mutual market, it will really lack everything except cattle, sheep and horses.

After more than ten years of mutual market, it is like they are used to the main road, and if they go to the sheep intestine trail again, they are afraid that it will be difficult to move an inch.

Therefore, when Talik asked Tumen Khan to lead his troops to Tumut to "quell the rebellion", the two consuls of Ordos and Yongshebu immediately objected, arguing that the Great Khan should not lead troops into other tribes, no matter what the name is.

Of course, the brains of the representative of the Chahar Ministry supported the Great Khan to go to Tumut to "quell the rebellion", so now the five consuls have formed a two-to-two draw.

At this time, the Khalkha speedy command became a decisive force.

Su Jianghai came from the Taining Department of Inner Khalkha, and has always been a capable accomplice of Tumen in Kou Daming, and it stands to reason that he should support Tumen.

However, when it was his turn to speak, he said expressionlessly: "I am also against it." ”

Brain Mao's eyes widened suddenly, and he subconsciously asked, "What?" Are you against? What are you against? For a moment, he thought he had misunderstood.

But he was indifferent to the surprise of the big brain, and said again seriously: "I am against the Great Khan going to Tumut. He glanced at the frowning Tuo Lik, touched his beard and said, "The matter of Tumut should be solved by Tumut Wanhu himself...... When did Altan ask us to ask about Tumert? ”

Altan is Alta, and I naturally wouldn't let others meddle in Tumut's affairs back then, only he interfered in other family affairs.

Although this sentence meant something, Huang Taiji and Huo Luochi both nodded their heads again and again, thinking deeply.

Brainhair said angrily: "Hurry up, are you confused? ”

"I'm sober." Quickly closed his eyes, leaned back slightly, and said calmly: "Rather than meddle in Tumut's family affairs, I would rather go to Liaodong to grab a handful...... I got a tip-off that the Ming people are hoarding supplies in Shanhaiguan, from the perspective of scale, this batch of materials is very large, I think it must be transported to Liaodong, if we can grab it, this batch of materials is enough for us to eat for several years. ”

Tumen Khan, who was sitting at the top to observe the meeting, did not expect to quickly turn the meeting into battle, and announced the adjournment of the meeting with an ugly face.

Back in his "palace", Tumen Khan's face was pale, his eyes were bloodshot with anger, and his brain immediately followed, and he asked cautiously: "Great Khan, what's the matter with this old fox, why does he oppose the Great Khan's westward entry into Tumut?" Did anyone buy him? ”

"Nobody is bribing him, he's just playing his own little tricks. Hmph, this rat-eyed! Tumen Khan gritted his teeth and said: "He is just afraid that today I can go to Tumut and tomorrow I can go to Khalkha, and then he will not be attached to me, but can only take refuge in me!" None of these people take the interests of the whole of Mongolia seriously! ”

The truth is good, it's just ...... This is a chronic disease of Mongolia, it has been like this since Genghis Khan, and the feudal system can only cause division, not unity. Later, Dayan Khan unified again, and the result was another separation......

If there is any significance to the unification of Dayan Khan, it is probably the abolition of the Taishi system, and from then on, the division of the feudal will basically only be the share of the golden family, which can be regarded as eliminating the opportunity for foreign surnames to take power.

But in fact, isn't the person who made "Taiji more than a dog, and the lord walks all over the land" Dayan Khan? The devil knows how many descendants of Genghis Khan have been in the past few hundred years. Although there are many clans in the Ming Dynasty, they are only raised and raised, and the descendants of the Jin clan are all of them, and they all have to be divided, and they all have to be subordinated and pastures.

Small calculations? Isn't that a matter of course?

I'm just the lord of one part, not the lord of all Mongolia, and you make me think about all of Mongolia? It's not impossible, then you let the Great Khan be the one for me first.

Brain Mao sighed: "I thought he was just lustful for profit, and he really looked at the batch of supplies at Shanhaiguan." ”

Tumen waved his hand: "That reason may not be all fake, Ben Khan also got a tip, saying that Jizhen and Liaodong are counting and hoarding supplies...... Don't tell me, it's a bit weird. ”

Brain Mao was surprised: "Is there really a large amount of supplies to be sent to Liaodong?" Great Khan, is the news near Shanhaiguan received by Su Jianghai true? ”

"Really?" Tumen sighed: "Now is not the time for the first year of Longqing, and it is not easy to be like that back then...... Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang are not easy to deal with. ”

Speaking of the incident in the first year of Longqing, Da Brain couldn't help sighing, and said: "The big victory like that back then, I really feel happy when I think about it." ”

What the two of them said had a lot to do with the changes in the defense level of Jizhen over the years.

In the past, in the early spring of the 43rd year of Jiajing, Tumen Khan failed to attack Shanhaiguan and other passes, and finally succeeded in the first year of Longqing three years later. At the end of autumn of this year, Tumen Khan's 100,000 men and horses demolished 29 places of the Great Wall that the Ming army had neglected to defend or simply left undefended, broke through the Jieling Pass and captured the Taitou camp in one fell swoop.

After that, the Mongolian army divided its troops to Funing, Lulong, Changli, Leting and other counties to burn, kill and loot everywhere, and wanted to capture and destroy the county seat of Changli. The county seat of Changli was besieged for four days, and the soldiers and civilians of Changli desperately defended it before it fell.

In just a few days, more than 12,500 Li civilians were killed in Changli, Funing, Lulong, Leting, and other counties.

After hearing the news, the imperial court urgently transferred Wang Zhidao, then the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, to lead the troops into Shanhaiguan, and the troops under the command of Li Shizhong, then the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, intercepted and killed the Mongolian troops who invaded the territory from the east and west, and sent Wei Xuezeng, then the governor of Liaodong, to settle in Shanhaiguan to guard.

A few days later, the Mongol army broke through in the direction of Yiyuankou, demolished 16 places of the Great Wall at Yiyuankou, and fled.

However, they were a little unlucky, and when they fled to the Bangmao Cliff, they got lost in the fog, their horses stumbled, and many fell into the deep stream.

At that time, it was the new monarch who ascended the throne, and it happened that Xu Jie's internal court began to suppress Gao Gong, and Xu Jie's was just a bureaucrat, and he had a set of power struggles, and he almost didn't care about side affairs, so there was no need to say much about the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. Therefore, when the real war was fought, he did not dare to fight, but after the war, he fought for the head of the deceased who fell from the mallet cliff of the Mongolian army to repay the merits.

However, this battle still has a very important significance, that is, it opened a precedent for the joint operation of Liaodong Town and Jizhen Town, and the interaction between the two towns began. And the meeting point that can closely integrate the defense of the two towns is Shanhaiguan.

During the Jiajing period, the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan and its adjacent areas was repeatedly impacted and in constant danger, and they were repaired one after another, but the architectural pattern did not change greatly; In the Longqing period, after the arrival of Qi Jiguang, the Great Wall defense buildings and facilities in this area were greatly changed.

After Longqing succeeded to the throne, he basically followed Gao Gong's management ideas, and in order to change the sinister situation of repeated incursions in the Jifu region, he decided to call Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun, who had made great contributions to the imperial widows in the south, to the north to rectify the border defense and train border soldiers.

In the summer of the second year of Longqing, under the strong recommendation of Tan Lun, the new governor of Jiliao, the imperial court appointed Qi Jiguang, who had been guarding Jizhen several times when he was young, to train troops in the three towns of Jizhou, Changping and Baoding, and later appointed him as the chief soldier of Jizhou, Yongping, Shanhai and other places.

Therefore, with the support of the imperial court, Qi Jiguang began to vigorously renovate the Great Wall fortifications in Jizhen on the basis of rectifying and training the border guarding troops.

During the Jiajing period, the Great Wall in the Xuanfu and Datong areas was repaired, and a lot of piers were built, while the Great Wall in some dangerous areas of Jizhen did not add piers when repairing.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang advocated that the Great Wall of Jizhen should be greatly changed when it is repaired: first, the original side walls should be heightened and thickened, and battlements should be set up on both sides of the wall, and heavy walls should be built in areas that are abnormally rushed; The first is to build a hollow enemy platform on the line of the Great Wall as a fortress against the enemy garrisoned by the border army.

Prior to this, there were also small brick and stone platforms built on the Great Wall of Jizhen, but there was no close connection between the small platforms, and the platforms were very small, which was difficult to cover the soldiers and difficult to store arms and equipment, and had little effect in actual combat. Qi Jiguang decided to "build a high platform and build a house to inhabit firearms", and decided the location and form of the enemy's platform according to the terrain.

He believes that the distance between the enemy's Taiwan and Taiwan should be close or far according to the terrain and topography, and one should be built at 100 or 100 paces in critical areas, and one at 1450 or 200 paces in secondary areas.

At the same time, the enemy platform with actual combat effect should generally be three or four zhang high, and the surrounding area is twelve to seventeen or eight zhang; It is necessary to build a pedestal with a boulder or brick, which is the same height as the side wall, protruding outward about one and a half zhang, and protruding inward for more than half a zhang; The platform is divided into three layers, the middle is empty, there are arrow windows on four sides, and there are battlements on the upper floor.

Thirty to fifty soldiers were stationed in each station, and necessary equipment and food were stored. Under the enemy's platform, there is also a garrison army to cooperate with the defenders on the platform to prevent the enemy from tearing down the wall and attacking inside.

At that time, Gao Gong had returned to the court to govern, and the financial situation of the imperial court began to improve, so he adopted Qi Jiguang's suggestion, but because the finances had only just begun to improve, he could not invest too much, so the number of enemy stations that should be built was reduced from 3,000 to more than 1,000.

Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun deployed soldiers and began the project of overhauling the Great Wall, and in the fifth year of Longqing, 1,017 enemy platforms were repaired, and the Great Wall along the way was repaired according to the situation. At that time, under the personal auspices of Governor Tan Lun, the Shanhaiguan area also carried out a lot of construction, and built many enemy platforms on the Great Wall on both sides of Shanhaiguan, especially Jiaoshan and Houjiaoshan.

Qi Jiguang guarded Jizhen Town, trained soldiers and horses, renovated the Great Wall, and built enemy platforms, coupled with the fact that Gao was pragmatic at that time to provide him with a new type of firearms illustrated book, although there was no Jinghua military industry, but Qi Jiguang built it himself, which also greatly strengthened the defense capability in the area of Shanhaiguan, so that the Mongolian cavalry who came to invade no longer dared to attack the city easily.

It has been said before that the northern frontier defense idea of Gao Gong is "West Huaidong System", so Qi Jiguang was allowed to overhaul the Great Wall in Jizhen at the same time, and at the same time, he took the Hannaji Surrender Incident as an opportunity to complete my tribute.

After that, although some men and horses of Tumen Khan and the Wuliang Haduoyan tribe still went to Shanhaiguan and some Great Wall passes adjacent to Shanhaiguan to spy and attack, it was difficult for them to get much advantage because of the dense number of enemy platforms in this area.

Changang and Dong Fox, who were mainly active outside the Great Wall of Jizhen, led troops to invade Jielingkou and Taolinkou respectively in the first year of Wanli, but they were defeated by the Ming army led by Qi Jiguang and were pursued; In the third year of Wanli, Chang Ang's uncle and Dong Fox's younger brother Chang Bald attacked Dongjiakou and was captured alive by the Ming army sent by Qi Jiguang to pursue and intercept him.

Changang, Dong Fox and others were helpless, and asked for the release of Chang Bald, promised not to commit any more offenses, and restored the relationship with the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute to the city.

After the reconciliation between the Dada Khan and the Ming Dynasty, and the Duoyan Guards of Uliangha did not dare to invade the border again, the main hostile force of the imperial court was the Tumen Khan who invaded Liaodong.

At that time, Qi Jiguang, according to the principle of "West Huaidong System", gradually focused on guarding Jizhen in the area of Shanhaiguan, mainly guarding Shanhaiguan.

In the sixth year of Wanli, the cavalry of the Tumen Khan once again swarmed and stormed the Nanhaikou and Sieryu in Shanhaiguan.

Qi Jiguang commanded the troops to repel these Mongol cavalry and rescued more than 2,000 men and women who had been plundered by the Mongol army.

At that time, Qi Jiguang saw that after the sea froze in winter, Qi Jiguang was easy to be rushed by the Mongol cavalry from the sea, so he sent his troops to build the stone city into the sea at the mouth of the sea in the second year to make up for this defensive loophole.

In the seventh year of Wanli, that is, in the winter of the year when the stone city of the South China Sea entrance to the sea of the Shanhaiguan Great Wall was completed, Tumen Khan again led 40,000 Mongolian cavalry from the Jinchuan battalion to attack Liaodong Town.

Qi Jiguang, who had learned of the military situation in advance, sent troops from Shanhaiguan and clashed with Tumen Khan's troops twice at Gou'er River and Shihe River, forcing Tumen Khan to withdraw his troops hundreds of miles away.

In one fell swoop, this battle changed the situation in which the Ming army stationed outside Shanhaiguan had been passively beaten for many years, and further strengthened the combination of the defense of Jizhen and the defense of Liaodong Town, highlighting the important role of Shanhaiguan in the defense areas of Jihai and Liao. After the war, Qi Jiguang, who had been successively promoted to the crown prince and the governor of the left capital, was crowned as a young protector for his meritorious service to Liao.

Tumen's "It's not easy to think about it like back then" refers to this situation.

Because of this, even if he learned the news that a large amount of materials from Shanhaiguan might be shipped to Liaodong like Su Jianghai, he was not very moved.

But now it seems that the speed of the sea seems to be really tempted.

Tumen Khan, the great khan of all Mongolia, had a headache for a while.

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