Chapter 187: The Jade Seal of the Country

Jia Ke thought that this arrow was foolproof, but he didn't expect that people were not as good as heaven, and he let this Tatar general escape this catastrophe.

Jia Ke wanted to shoot another arrow, but this Tatar general was so clever that he actually crouched on his horse and fled away in the crowd. Due to the distance, although Jia Ke was a sharpshooter, he could not shoot the enemy at such a distance.

Seeing that the people had fled, Jia Ke no longer struggled, but left a part of the troops to quickly clean up the battlefield, and he continued to advance in the direction of the royal tent of Arslen Khan with more than 40,000 cavalry.

When Jia Ke arrived at the garrison of Arslen Khan, he saw only a mess, and there was no one left in the garrison. However, Jia Ke found that Arslen Khan was in a hurry, and almost all the supplies in the garrison were left in place.

Jia Ke led the people into the tent of the king of Arslen Khan, and found that it was still brightly lit, but there was no one, and the leftovers on the table were still steaming. Jake knew that Arslen Khan had not fled for long, but it was getting late now, and it was almost impossible to find him in the steppe.

Jia Ke had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and asked all the materials in Arslen Khan's residence to be collected and taken away, and Jia Ke personally rummaged through Arslen Khan's big tent, hoping to find valuable items in it, so that he could hand them over to the imperial court to show his merits.

The emperor lived up to his wishes, and Jia Ke finally found a wooden box in a hidden corner of the back tent. Jia Ke opened the wooden box and looked inside, only to see that there was a whole body blue and white, crystal clear jade seal, Jia Ke took out the jade seal and looked carefully, this treasure seal is different, the jade seal is four inches in circumference, with five dragons on it, crystal warm and moist, green in the blue, missing a corner next to it, inlaid with gold, there is a seal inscription below: "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity." "This should be the heirloom jade seal that was plundered to the steppe by the Tatars when the previous dynasty collapsed. It's just that Jia Ke never thought of such an important thing, Arslen Khan actually carried it with him, and he forgot to take this treasure with him when he escaped, which shows his panic when he escaped.

When Jia Ke saw this jade seal, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Jia Ke's first reaction was to look around and find that there was no one around, so he was relieved.

Jia Ke was alone in the treasure tent of Arslen Khan, holding the jade seal and playing carefully, and at the same time engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, whether to collect this jade seal privately, or hand it over to the imperial court in exchange for real merit and future.

Jia Ke thought about it and finally decided to hand over this jade seal to the imperial court, first, he could pretend to be a loyal minister. Second, you can take a step forward with this credit to expand your strength and territory.

After all, Jia Ke has traveled to this parallel time and space from modern times, and he is not as superstitious as the ancients about the jade seal of the country, and he believes that it is the people's will and his own strength that determine the rise and fall of a dynasty, rather than a small jade seal. If there is a jade seal dynasty, it can be preserved, and there are many dynasties that have inherited jade seals in all dynasties, and which one has survived until now?

Jia Ke put the heirloom jade seal back into the wooden box, and then collected it closely, which was the guarantee for him to add an official to the knighthood, and then he went out of the big account.

Outside the big tent, the old and new Manchu Eight Banners were rummaging around the entire camp, and all the things that could be taken away and still valuable, all of them were loaded and left behind. By dawn, all the materials in the garrison of Arslen Khan were all gathered by them, and loaded into carriages ready to be pulled away, but fortunately, Arslen Khan and others left a large number of vehicles and livestock in a hurry, otherwise they had no way to take these materials, and finally had to burn them.

Jia Ke saw that the time was almost up, and he couldn't stay any longer. So he ordered all the departments of the Eight Banners to reorganize their men and horses and evacuate to the northeast. It was the place where they settled and plundered people and goods.

Besides, Meng He, who was ambushed in the direction of Kaiping Town at this time, had not received news from Jia Ke for several days, and he was very anxious, he was afraid that Jia Ke would see through his plan and then return to the Southern Dynasty from another direction.

Although Meng He brought more than 100,000 horses with him this time, these people were not united, except for a few tribes that were attacked by Jia Ke, most of the people in the other tribes did not want to fight against Jia Ke. Just because Jia Ke's record is so powerful, there is no need for them to lose their own men and horses for the sake of other tribes.

Moreover, in the past year, Arslen Khan has carried out a great purge of the steppe, and the Erut Sud, who was hostile to him last year, has been surrounded and killed by him. The Erut Department was divided into three by him, the largest part of which was annexed by him, and the remaining two parts, one was given to his younger brother by him, and the remaining part was inherited by Sude's son according to the steppe tradition, so that they could maintain the name of the Erut Division, but the current strength of the Erut Department is less than a quarter of the previous one.

With this justifiable attack, Arslen Khan strengthened himself, but it also planted the seeds of discord in the steppe, and the steppe tribes were now only under the military strength of Arslene Khan, and had to obey his command.

And this time, it was precisely because of Arsleng Khan who split the Erut Division, which made the defense of the Erlut Department lax, and not many people stayed in the tribe, and finally the whole tribe was wiped out by Jia Ke in one fell swoop, which made the tribesmen on the steppe tremble. Afraid that he would be the next Erut tribe, every tribe now cherishes the strength of its own tribe.

Now on the surface of the grassland, Artslen Khan already has absolute authority, in fact, the dark tide is surging, each tribe is increasing its strength, and private alliances are not uncommon, as long as Artsleng Khan has any radical actions, there will be an alliance composed of most tribes on the grassland. So who still has the heart to really work for Arslen Khan now, it's just a perfunctory for him.

Meng He knew very well what difficulties he was facing, so he did not have strong control over the tribes, as long as the clan leaders could still hear his orders, he would turn a blind eye.

Meng He was in the north of Kaiping Town, and had been waiting for Jia Ke for seven or eight days, but the news from the horses everywhere had not found Jia Ke's whereabouts. The bad premonition in Meng He's heart became stronger and stronger.

On this day, Meng He was in the big tent, looking at the map and frowning, he was thinking about what he would do if he was Jia Ke? Meng He thought about it, and suddenly found that the garrison of Arslen Khan was now weak, and it was too close to the Southern Dynasty, if Jia Ke found out their direction at this time and attacked with all his might, Arslen Khan would definitely suffer heavy losses.

As soon as Meng He thought of this possibility, he was immediately frightened into a cold sweat, and he immediately wrote a letter in the account and asked his personal soldiers to send it to Zhangbei immediately. In the letter, he explained his judgment to Arslen Khan, and asked Arsleng Khan to move north with his guards and dependents for more than 300 miles, because Zhangbei was too close to the Southern Dynasty and was very unsafe.

Meng He sent his own soldiers out on the front foot, and the messenger of Arslen Khan Tailai arrived on the back foot, reported to him the news that Jia Ke raided Zhangbei, and that Arsleng Khan fled with people overnight, and conveyed to him the order of Arslen Khan to order Meng He to go north to Zhangbei to rescue him.

Meng He saw that what he was most worried about had finally happened, and he was both anxious and helpless. At the same time, he praised Jia Ke again, and sighed that Jia Ke really deserved his reputation, and he was really a difficult opponent between playing with and applauding the entire Tartar.

Although Meng He and Jia Ke have some sympathy and praise Jia Ke's use of troops, but at this time he will never let go of Jia Ke's scourge, he still thinks that Jia Ke's threat is too great, and the main task now should be to eliminate Jia Ke instead of rescuing Arslen Khan. Meng He didn't think that Jia Ke would search for traces of Arslen Khan in the vast steppe.

After thinking for a while, Meng He immediately ordered a small group of cavalry to run with all their strength tied to a branch behind their horses, pretending to be a large army supporting Zhang Bei to attract Jia Ke's attention. And he led the real army and continued to ambush in the direction of Kaiping Town, if Jia Ke was tricked and avoided the troops who went to support, he would definitely be wiped out by him when he returned to Kaiping Town.