"The Ming people who occupy the Naturalization City are looking ahead, and the Jin people are following behind us step by step, if the two of them fight each other, I can't imagine this situation."

Tashhai, the chief officer of the two wings, said to Lin Dan Khan with a sad face.

"My chief officer, you have been so worried, you see, now every day your subjects come here, they offer their cattle, sheep and food, and our warriors have food, and they are no longer plagued by hunger.

I have decided, I will kill the Ming people who stand in our way, and use his head to sacrifice to the heavens for our migration. ”

Lin Dan Khan deceived himself.

If it had been in the past, he really wouldn't have taken the Ming army to heart.

Since Lin Dan Khan was defeated by Wang Zezhi several times, the troops led by Wang Zezhi have been haunting him like a nightmare.

The reason why Lin Dan Khan said this was because he couldn't show his cowardice as a khan, and if even he was scared, these people under him didn't know what would happen.

"The Ming people who occupy Guihua City have sharp firearms and brave battles, and their cavalry is not less than ours, and their weapons are better than ours, so they can't be underestimated." The two wings of the chief officer Hu Luke Zhaisang echoed.

"That Ming man is not trivial, now that he occupies the Naturalization City, we need to be cautious and cautious, and be careful and careful."

Tashhai said.

The other leaders in the big tent didn't speak, they were all afraid of offending Lin Dan Khan and making Lin Dan Khan unhappy, only the two chief officials persuaded me every word.

"It's me who underestimated the enemy, and counting it, I have lost forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses in the hands of that Ming people."

Lin Dan Khan was like a deflated ball, and it was rare to admit his mistakes.

Wang Zezhi's soldiers and horses are well-equipped, motivated by military merits, there are many cavalry, and there are steel armor heavy horses, plus firecrackers and artillery, he really can't match.

"This Ming man must die, if he doesn't die and we migrate, there will be no chance to come back."

Lin Danhan's face turned ruthless, and he gritted his teeth and said.

"We only have 40,000 people, and if we fight with the Ming people in Guihua City, I'm afraid..."

Lin Dan Khan's expression was stern, he looked around at the people in the tent, and said: "When I waved my army south, I met this Ming man in Xi'an Fort in Datong Mansion, and he defended Xi'an Fort with only a few men, and we had an army of 100,000 at that time.

In just a few months, he was able to defeat our elite cavalry in the mouth of the tiger, and even took Guihua City.

Now, he is getting stronger and stronger, and with what I know about him, when he is stronger, he will definitely wipe out all of us on the grassland.

Therefore, this person must die, and if he does not die, we will not survive even if we migrate. ”

There was silence in the tent, and even the chief officers of the two wings did not dare to speak anymore.

Because they know that what Lin Dan Khan said is true.

If they just escaped, when Wang Zezhi became stronger, he would definitely go to Qinghai to hunt them down.

"This Ming people, with sharp firearms and many cavalry, fortunately, when we were in the Eastern Expedition to the Alu Division, we snatched some artillery from Huang Taiji's hands, and with these artillery, we may not be able to defeat him."

Lin Dan Khan's battle with Huang Taiji in the Xilamulun River was not without a chance of winning.

Otherwise, the two would not have fought from the first year of Chongzhen to the second year of Chongzhen.

When Lin Dan Khan was victorious, he snatched more than a dozen Franc machine guns from Huang Taiji, and now they are just used to deal with Wang Zezhi.

Tashhai, the chief officer of the two wings, echoed: "Indeed, the firearms of this Ming people are extremely sharp, their firearms and artillery have a long range and great power, and with the kind of invulnerable heavy armored cavalry, our strong bows and arrows have no room to play at all." ”

The chief officer of the two wings, Hulu Kezhai Sang, wondered: "In this way, isn't the Ming people who occupy Naturalization City invulnerable?" Can't we cut off their food and trap them? ”

"It's useless, the grain and grass of this Ming people are extremely abundant, and their grain route is from the Tiger Killing Mouth of Datong Mansion to the Naturalization City, the distance between the two places is too short, if we go to attack the grain road, we will be attacked by the Ming people before and after, and we will suffer heavy losses."

The leaders in the tent were silent for a while, and Lin Dan Khan looked at the demoralized people, cheered up and said: "It seems that in the battle with this Ming army, you can only try to avoid its frontal edge, and you can't attack brutally.

I decided to cut off their water supply and poison them in the upper reaches of the Black River. Jiuhe Library

This part of the Naturalization City must be removed, sooner rather than later, and immediately order people to poison them. ”

The people in the tent were shocked and poisoned the water source, which was the same practice.

As soon as Tashhai, the chief officer of the two wings, wanted to say something and rejected Lin Dan Khan's idea, he saw Lin Dan Khan staring at him coldly.

Tashhai got goosebumps when he was stared at, and immediately swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.

......

In the second year of Chongzhen, at the beginning of April.

Wang Zezhi's army gathered in Guihua City, Wang Zezhi stood on the city wall, looking at the soldiers outside the city, the military meritorious soldiers, and the temporary soldiers summoned by the leaders of various departments, and he was ambitious for a while.

Now the total number of soldiers and horses under his command has exceeded 100,000.

He originally had more than 40,000 soldiers, more than 20,000 meritorious soldiers, plus the Ordos Department under the control of the Elu Chen, the Tumut Department under the control of Lu Ge, and the combatable people who were temporarily summoned by the Tumut Ministry, which was completely more than 100,000 people.

"Wang Shan, are all the food and grass required by the sergeants of each battalion matched?"

"The grain and grass of the establishment soldiers are given priority, followed by the military meritorious soldiers, and finally the temporary soldiers of each tribe, because the number of temporary soldiers is still increasing, the grain and grass can only be distributed according to the number reported by the leaders of each department, and for the time being, the sergeants of each battalion have been allocated the grain and grass for seven days."

"Well, that's good."

Wars are fought about money and food.

The amount of grain and grass used by more than 100,000 people is a large amount, and even though he began to arrange for logistics personnel to escort the grain and grass at the end of March, he still did not bring enough grain and grass for more than 100,000 people to use in January.

Now from the mouth of the tiger to the city of naturalization, there is a long convoy constantly transporting grain and grass.

More than 100,000 people have to eat more than 20,000 stone of grain in a day, and more than 600,000 stone of grain in a month, not counting tea, salt and other side dishes.

Therefore, Wang Zezhi attaches great importance to grain and grass.

Wang Zezhi gathered so many soldiers and horses and didn't attack Lin Dan Khan at the first time, it was because he was waiting.

The nomads gathered together were very powerful, but if they were scattered and hid in the steppes and deserts, Wang Zezhi would have to spend several times his forces to find and annihilate them.

When the time comes, the labor division will go on an expedition, and the loss will be huge, even if Wang Zezhi even robbed and cheated a lot of silver and grain, he couldn't afford it.

According to the information obtained by Xiao Liuzi, Lin Dan Khan's camp was constantly absorbing herders from the east, south and north.

So far, they have gathered almost 100,000 people.

Wang Zezhi was not afraid of them gathering, but afraid of them scattering.

He wants to wipe out Lin Dan Khan, and then deal with Huang Taiji in Liaodong with peace of mind.

"My lord, something happened."

When the Black Tiger Village was in Black Tiger Village, Wang Zezhi attached great importance to the safety of the water source, and at this time, the personnel responsible for taking care of the water source ran in in a panic.

"Don't panic, speak slowly."

"Poison, poison in the water." The water protector trembled and took out a blackened silver needle to show Wang Zezhi.

Wang Zezhi looked at the blackened silver needle, and immediately ordered: "Inform the whole army, the despicable Khutuktu Khan has poisoned our water like a thief."

The herald immediately ordered Yang Zhihui's military doctors to take action and do everything possible to save the poisoned sergeant.

Tell the whole army to change the water intake points, and take it from all tributaries, not from the Heihe River.

An edict was sent to the herdsmen in the lower reaches of the Black River, telling them that Khutuktu Khan had poisoned the Black River and told them not to use it.

Just go. ”

"Yes."