The Tatars in the steppe are a large tribe among the Mongols, and like the Warat, they have a long history, and they are constantly in conflict with each other and conquering each other.

As early as the Liao Dynasty, the Tatar tribes passed through the Liao Taizu Yelu Yi to the Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu Dynasty of the strategy, all of them were subordinate departments of the Liao court, and the "History of Liao" was commonly called the blocking of divination or the art of Bugu, and there were the difference between the North Block, the West Block, the Northwest Block, and the Blockade of the Zara.

The Liao court respectively ordered its leaders to be the king (or Yi Lijian), and placed the northwest road to recruit the division to unify him; And build three cities between the upper reaches of the Orkhon River and the Tula River, set up the town, defense, and Weizhou, garrison the town, and open up Tuntian.

The Tatar (divination) tribes need to pay tribute to horses, camels, mink skins, green mouse skins, etc., and need to be conscripted into troops, and the Liao court every time they invade China in the south, the Tatar departments are sent troops to participate.

In the Jin Dynasty, the Jin people focused on the use of troops in the Song Dynasty, and the various forces of the Mongolian Plateau took the opportunity to have a great development, the Tatar Department of the Hulun ~ Bell Grassland, the Kereh Department centered on the upper reaches of the Orkhon River, the Mongolian Department that rose in the middle and upper reaches of the Onen River and the Krulun River, the Naiman Department from the Altai Mountains to the Hangai Mountain region, and the Wanggu Department of Monan, etc., were very strong.

Although these Mongol tribes successively submitted to the Jin, except for the Wanggu tribe, they often rebelled and attacked the northern border of the Jin Dynasty, especially the Tatar and the Mongol two tribes, and the Jin Dynasty had to build the Great Wall to prevent it.

In the literature of the Song people, the various tribes of the Mongolian plateau are often referred to as Tatars, and according to their distance from the Han land and the different levels of culture, they are distinguished into black Tatars (referring to the Mongolian tribes), white Tatars (referring to the Wanggu tribes), and raw Tatars.

After Genghis Khan unified the tribes and established the Great Mongolian State, the nomadic herders of all the tribes were incorporated into thousands of households, and they were collectively called Mongols. In the Yuan Dynasty literature, the clan name "Mongolia" was generally used, and the original tribal names were used as surname symbols, but the folk Chinese still habitually called them "Dada" (Tatar).

Later, Emperor Hongwu "expelled the Tatars and restored China", drove away the Mongol and Yuan Tatars in one fell swoop, and then incorporated the Tatar conquest that retreated to the Mongolian Plateau into the territory.

In the first year of Hongwu, Emperor Yuan Shun abandoned the capital and fled north, and died two years later in Yingchang (now Dali Norxi, Keshiketeng Banner, Inner Mongolia).

Due to the repeated attacks of the Ming Dynasty and the fierce struggles within the Mongol aristocracy, the power of the Tatar tribes gradually weakened.

Subsequently, the Tatar Taishi Arutai and the Warat nobles in eastern Mongolia fought endlessly, and each of them established the Northern Yuan Khan as puppet khans; The Ming Dynasty took advantage of the contradictions between the two sides, first crowned the three people including Mahamu, the leader of Warat, as kings, and then also named the Tatar Taishi Arutai as kings, so that they could compete with each other.

After Mahamuz Tuhuan unified the Warat tribes, he sent troops to attack and kill Arutai and the Adai Khan he established, and set up another Tokhtokh Buhua as a Khan to govern the Tatar tribes. Tohuanzi also further expanded his power, completely annexed the Tatars, and killed the Khan to stand on his own, and the Tatars were temporarily subordinated to the Warat Empire.

What happened then was that the Taishi Warat first usurped the throne with a nobleman with a different surname, and then was defeated by Liu Juntao who took the opportunity to lead the army, and since then the Warat has declined, and the Tatar Department has taken the opportunity to recover.

At this time, the Tatar department, like a weed on the vast steppe, suddenly began to swell with the blowing of the spring breeze!

Just after Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, led his troops back to Shandong, the Great Khan of Warat was also defeated and died, and the news that a number of Warat generals and nobles such as the king of Saikan and the general Arazhiyuan were killed has spread throughout the grassland desert.

At this time, the Tatar Taishi came to get the news and immediately began to mobilize the Tatar departments, and in just ten days, tens of thousands of iron horsemen were assembled, and then they began to lead the army eastward, preparing to sweep the homeland of Warat.

The chieftain of the Ongniute tribe of the Tatar tribe, Mao Lihao, received the order of the Taishi Xiaolai, and also led 10,000 iron horsemen to set off, marched east with the Taishi Xiaolai, and began to sweep the hometown of Wara.

In the next two months, tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry swept the entire Warat homeland from west to east, hundreds of thousands of Warat tribes were captured by the Tatar army, and hundreds of Hu tribes that were originally vassals of Warat all took refuge under the Tatar sect at this time.

For a time, the strength of the Tatar Department swelled rapidly, not only quickly occupying the territory of the original Warat, annexing the troops of Warat, but also basically unifying the Mongolian tribes together with the chassis of the original Tatar Department!

At this time, except for the second son of Yexian, who moved west, who lost Timur's department, the remaining Mongolian tribes had basically been annexed by the Tatar department.

The Tatar Taishi also began to be busy with internal rectification, preparing to integrate the newly annexed tribes and redistribute the chassis of the original Tatar tribes.

At this time, the Tatar Taishi was very ambitious, and he never thought that the always powerful Warat would be defeated in civil strife, giving the Tatar a chance to rise!

Dominating the grassland is no longer the ambition of the Taishi, at this time, he has set his sights on the south, the powerful, prosperous and vast Ming!

Jingtai 5th July.

The scorching sun is on the head, and the heat is coming.

But no matter how hot the sun in the sky is, the hearts of Emperor Jingtai and the ministers of the court are like ice cellars, and they are already cold to the bone!

The news that the Tatar Ministry had annexed the old Warat Department, greatly increased its strength, and took advantage of the situation to rise, had already reached the capital at this time.

Emperor Jingtai stared at the ministers in the imperial study with a blue face, and his heart could be described as full of hatred.

Of course, a large part of this hatred is remorse for your decision!

Just after the Tiance army officers and soldiers achieved a great victory, Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, and Liu Juntao, the chief military officer of Shandong Town, all wrote to the court, advocating that the imperial court immediately send troops to occupy the hometown of Wara and collect all the departments of Wara, so as not to let the rest of the Hu tribes take the opportunity to rise.

However, Emperor Jingtai was bent on consolidating the imperial power and directly vetoed this proposal, and then the news of the rise of the Tatar Ministry came, which was a loud slap in the face, and Emperor Jingtai was blind.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what is the judgment of the imperial court at this moment!"

In the imperial study, Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department, Chen Xun, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Shi Heng, the governor of the right capital, took the lead, and the remaining dozen or so main ministers of various ministries and cabinets were all present.

But the crowd was silent, and no one wanted to speak first.

At this time, it is too late to send troops!

The Tatar Ministry had already occupied the vast steppe desert, and even if the imperial court immediately ordered the troops, it would take three or two months before the army could leave the pass and go north, and at that time the Tatar Ministry did not know how many iron horses had been burst out of the desert, not to mention that the morale of the Tatar Department at this time was booming and unstoppable.

If you are not careful, it will be another defeat of the civil fort!

But if no troops are dispatched, once the Tatars have digested the vast territory and many tribes they have annexed, and all of them have been transformed into huge national strength, then the imperial court will have to face an opponent even stronger than Warat, and the situation may be even more dangerous than the current army!

But whether to send troops or not, at this time, no one in the imperial study can make a decision, including Yu Qian, the secretary of the military department.

Emperor Jingtai was also depressed when he saw this, so he said to Yu Qian, the secretary of the Ministry of War: "Yu Aiqing, what is the opinion of the Ministry of War!" ”

Yu Qian sighed slightly in his heart, and then said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is too late to send troops at this time, in order to prevent the Tatar Ministry from attacking in the future, the imperial court should immediately start to rectify the key passes in various places on the nine sides, and begin to supervise the large-scale military training of all military towns, in case of emergency!" ”

Yu Qian's proposal can be described as decent, but he has already expressed his opinion, that is, not to send troops for the time being.

Shi Heng, the governor of the right capital, glanced at Yu Qian, but did not speak, although he had the intention to sing against Yu Qian, but he also had to admit that the decision not to send troops now was correct.

When the rest of the courtiers saw Yu Qian speak, they all agreed with him.

Seeing this, Emperor Jingtai could only approve of it, and ordered the military department to immediately urge the towns on the nine borders to strengthen their defenses, and ordered the military towns to reorganize their armaments.

In the end, Emperor Jingtai also deliberately emphasized that he would immediately close the horse markets in various parts of the Nine Sides, and completely cut off the way for the Tatars to obtain salt, iron, tea and other materials.

At the same time, Liu Juntao, who was in the capital of Jinan, also learned that the Tatar Department was rising, and couldn't help but sigh, and said secretly: "These Tartars are like leeks, cut a stubble and grow a stubble, the imperial court should send troops in time to cut the grass and eradicate the roots!" ”

However, it was too late to say anything!