The Tumut tribe is a long-standing Mongol tribe that was ordered to garrison the twelve passes of the Altai Mountains during the Great Mongol Empire, so it is called the Twelve Tumuts.

Twelve is the 120,000 households of the Tumut Department, also called the 12 Etuoke, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the 12 Tumut migrated to the Yinshan and Tumochuan area, occupying the rich land outside the Qiantao and Xuanda borders, in the heyday it had a population of 350,000, more than 100,000 soldiers, the territory east from the north of Jizhen, west to the Ordos Plateau and the Houtao area.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, when Lin Dan Khan launched a war to annex the Mongolian tribes, the Tumut tribe bore the brunt, and the naturalized city was captured by Lin Dan Khan, and all the Qiantao areas fell.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji went west to investigate Har, and Lin Dan Khan hurriedly fled west with his subordinates to Qinghai, and many of the subordinates of the Western Tumut Department were engulfed in it.

The remaining Situmat tribes surrendered to Houjin one after another, and those who fled back halfway also turned their heads to Houjin to deal with Lin Dan Khan together.

Prior to this, the Eastern Tumut Department had already taken refuge in Houjin, and the Eastern and Western Tumut had all fallen into the hands of Huang Taiji.

But, that doesn't mean their days are getting better.

Due to the continuous wars and the oppression of the Chahar department, the population of Tumut became smaller and smaller, and after Lin Dan Khan coerced a large number of clansmen to flee west to Qinghai, the population was even more pitiful.

Up to now, the population of the entire Tumut Department is only a little more than 10,000, and the number of soldiers that can be mobilized is less than 4,000, which is 108,000 miles worse than the population and strength of the glory period.

Among them, the Menggol Jin tribe located in the Halangwu area north of the Yatou Pass suffered the most heavy losses, a large number of clansmen were coerced by Lin Dan Khan to Qinghai, the population fell sharply, and then Jin lost hundreds of people when he entered Kou Xuanda, most of them died at the hands of the Guan Emperor army.

Today, the remaining strength of the Menggol Jin Department is only a little more than 1,000, and the rest of the old and weak population is only more than 2,000 people.

The leader of the Menggol Jin tribe was Shanba, who was also the Zasak of the left-wing Tumut tribe, and after Huang Taiji quickly established the Mengba Banner, he divided the east and west Tumut into the left and right wings, and let Shanba, who was a Uliangha person, take charge of the left wing, so as to weaken the influence of the Golden Family.

Shanba's title is big enough, but his strength is very weak, and when he was worried about where to replenish the population, he suddenly heard an urgent report: Emperor Guan's army suddenly went north and was building a city in the area of the Qingshui River.

Hearing this, Shanba was taken aback and hurriedly asked a small group of nomadic herdsmen near the Qingshui River to withdraw with their belongings.

Within a few days, the herdsmen had returned, but fortunately the Guandi army did not attack the scattered herdsmen.

According to the information brought back by these herdsmen, the Guan Emperor army was building two military forts along the Qingshui River, mobilizing an unknown amount of labor, and transporting all kinds of strange things to the Qingshui River every day.

There are tens of thousands of Guan Di troops guarding the surrounding area, and judging from the current intelligence, Guan Di Jun is not such a whim.

They are bad comers.

Shanba immediately made a decision and immediately asked his people to begin to retreat to Naturalization City, where not only Zasak of Tumut, but also Houjin Bel Yeyue, who had just led a vanguard to Naturalization City not long ago.

The migration in the first two days was relatively peaceful, but in the early morning of the third day, when Shanba stretched his waist and walked out of the big tent, a fast horse galloped and shouted from afar: "Lord Zasak, it's not good, it's not good, the enemy is coming, and the Guan Emperor's army is coming......"

"What?"

Shanba's face changed drastically.

"Lord Zasak, Emperor Guan's army has arrived ten miles away, and it will be there soon."

Shanba's face changed again: "Why didn't Tanma return?" ”

"Emperor Guan's army came in the dark of night, and several probes have not returned, so they may have encountered an accident."

"How many centaurs?"

"About four thousand, everyone has horses, they move very fast, and they have a lot of firearms."

Hearing this, Shanba's face turned pale, and cold sweat continued to break out on his forehead.

"My lord, let's go, it's too late if you don't leave."

"Let's go? How to go? People can walk, what about cattle and sheep? Without cattle and sheep, the people will only starve to death, and don't expect people from other tribes to give us food. ”

"This ......"

At this time, a burly man holding a Mongolian scimitar ran next to him, and said in a rough voice: "Lord Zasak, they only have 4,000 soldiers and horses, and we only need to order 800 warriors to kill them head-on." ”

Shanba shook his head and sighed helplessly: "Arslen, you didn't go to Xuanda last time, and you don't know the power of Emperor Guan's army, let alone the power of those firearms, eight hundred warriors...... I'm afraid I can't even touch the other party's hair. ”

"My lord, what should we do now?"

Shanba didn't rush to answer, only frowned and thought hard, making the most difficult decision in his life.

After a long time, Shanba suddenly sighed helplessly, and spit out a word from his mouth: "Descend." ”

"Lord Zasak, you mean that our people surrender?"

"That's right."

"But...... The tribes of the whole savannah will laugh at us. ”

"When we converted to the Jurchens, they didn't laugh at us."

"That's because most of the tribes have submitted to the Jurchens."

"It won't be long before most of the grassland tribes will return to Qinchuan."

"This ...... Is he really that good? ”

"Well, it's very powerful, you see that he sent troops to the Hetao this time, and he didn't directly attack Guihua City, but built a military fort in the Qingshui River, if nothing else, he will not occupy the Hetao this year, but will only subdue some tribes, kill the other part of the tribes who are unwilling to surrender, or drive out of the Hetao."

Until next year, he will continue to build a military fort all the way to Guihua City, and then occupy the Qiantao area in one fell swoop. At that time, Huang Taiji would inevitably send troops to attack him, but his military forts ...... It was an impregnable fortress, and it contained a large number of sharp artillery, long-range and accurate birds, and earth-shattering thunderbolts that could kill a large group of thunderbolts when thrown down. ”

"When the Qiantao area is full of military forts that are not far from each other and can echo each other, this rich land is probably going to fall into the hands of Qin Chuan, and it will be difficult for Huang Taiji to break through his military fort, and he will not dare to bypass the military fort and advance westward, because that will make him suffer from the enemy on both sides, and it will be easy to cut off the grain route, and it will be a complete defeat at that time."

Listening to the words of the perfect ba, the big man and the people around him were silent.

Actually, he was right, cattle and sheep travel far less fast than horses, and if you carry a large number of cattle and sheep, you will be caught up sooner or later

If they didn't bring their cattle and sheep, they might be able to escape, but ...... Without cattle and sheep, they are not far from death.

So, it can only be lowered.

……

Almost at the same time, the Dundalat Division, directly north of Datong's Victory Fort, was fleeing in the direction of Guihua City with cattle and sheep.

About an hour later, the sound of horses' hooves rumbling behind him sounded.

The 4,000 Guan Emperor troops quickly followed the footprints of cattle, sheep and horses.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Dundalat Department hurriedly mobilized all the clansmen who could go on horseback to fight, about 1,000 troops, formed a cone formation, and rushed towards the Guan Emperor's army.

Seeing that the men of the Dundalat Division were about to enter the range of 100 paces, the musketeers of the Guan Emperor's army dismounted one after another, took out the already loaded bird guns from behind the saddle, and aimed them at the cavalry in the conical formation.

The gunners also set up their tiger squat cannons, quickly reloaded, and then aimed at the Mongol cavalry.

When the 1,000 Mongols came within 100 paces, the sound of the Tiger Cannons rang out, followed by the musketeers' flintlock muskets.

Dense shells whistled in, and the Mongol soldiers who rushed ahead fell all over the ground as if they were cutting wheat.

The Mongol soldiers behind who were lucky enough to escape hurriedly turned their horses' heads and ran back for their lives.

The Guan Emperor's army did not chase these Mongol soldiers who ran fast on horseback, but chased after a large herd of cattle and sheep.

After about an hour, most of the cattle and sheep were intercepted, and the Mongols died and descended.

The Dundalat Department soon fell into the hands of Qin Chuan.