The old man's words made Lu Xiangsheng believe half of it, he believed that there were indeed herdsmen who did not have extra food to eat, but he also believed that this old man was related to the person who robbed Lin Dan Khan, and his own situation was not as bad as he appeared. At first, the old man said that someone had eaten the wine and cakes given to Lin Dan Khan by the imperial court, and Lu Xiangsheng knew that the things that the imperial court gave to Lin Dan Khan twice were robbed by people, and the people who ate were related to these people even if they were not the ones who robbed things.

Looking at the thin horse ridden by the old man outside the tent, remembering that the ancient road outside the Gubei Mouth and the west wind blowing violently, plus it was already afternoon, and the oblique sunlight stretched the shadow of the tent for a long time, Lu Xiangsheng felt that Yuanqu was sometimes written very realistically. It's just that now the people standing outside the gate are not broken intestines but hungry intestines, less poetic and more cruel reality, and what is even more cruel is that I can't give them even a little help.

Lu Xiangsheng said to the old man and the young man: "I have not been notified to switch the exchange of markets with the Mongolian tribes, and the imperial court has not sent anything to trade with you≈ the people sent by Dan Khan did not leave with us, but they came to escort the gifts given to Lin Dan Khan by the Emperor of the Great Tomorrow, and they did not leave because they were sick." If you don't believe it, you can look outside, but you must not come within two miles of the Great Wall, because you can't tell which cannon will go off and hurt people. ”

The old man already believed a little after listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, but he still said: "The people from the Han Department have always been here, how can we believe what you say?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "As soon as they get better, I will let them go immediately, and it is estimated that it will not take more than three days." ”

After the old man and the young man went out, they told the leader what had happened, and said that Lin Dan Khan's guards would be driven out and go back in three days at most, and everyone believed that they had been deceived, and after deliberation, they decided to wait here for three days to see what was going on.

Ten days ago, he continued to send people everywhere to publicize this matter, in order to focus the attention of everyone in the local area, and the person who took advantage of the ±robbery was also the Karaqin people as Lin Dan Khan analyzed, and the leader Dalai Taiji was a person who had negotiated with Su Bu back then, and they were immediately angry when they heard the news, and not only prepared themselves, but also asked someone to inform the Tumuts hundreds of miles away.

The Tumuts were far away from grabbing anything, but they were not very short of food, so they were not very angry, and they only had the mind to take advantage of the decline of the Han tribe and leave. Everyone doesn't understand why the Han Department left back then, after all, who can say clearly after so many years? But everyone is not stupid, everyone can see the meaning of the Han tribe moving back west under the leadership of Lin Dan Khan, especially when someone asked Lin Dan Khan why he didn't resist the Jurchens with all his might, Lin Dan Khan explained that he would return west with him only if everyone knew the danger, and this was remembered by the Tumut people after they knew it.

Therefore, the Karaqin people who grabbed things were more angry than the Tumuts who did not grab things, and a few hundred stones of grain were nothing compared to a large number of transactions. Of course, they also want to kill three birds or four birds with one stone, that is, to enter the Great Wall to grab a big battle or occupy the Gubei Pass and then come to Beijing to seek greater benefits, but seeing the Ming army on the Great Wall and the cannon port of the black hole, everyone knows that their preparation is not sufficient.

Now the Ming army denies that there is such a thing as a mutual market, and the words are so convincing that no one can believe it, and everyone knows that they feel very unlucky to be deceived. Who knows that there is no most unfortunate thing in the world, only more unlucky, everyone was blown by the cold wind outside the Gubei Pass for less than two days, and they continued to receive news that their tribe was attacked.

Seeing that the Karaqin people and their allies were easily mobilized, and their attention was also attracted to the Great Wall outside the Gubei Pass, Lin Dan Khan immediately decided to divide the men and horses that had been secretly gathered together into two parts, and pounced in the east and west directions at the same time. About 30,000 men in the east went down the Xiaoluan River to the east to the vicinity of Daning and Lingyuan, and captured all the Karaqin people among them, and confiscated all the horses left. And they didn't finish the operation in one operation, but repeatedly cleaned from west to east and from east to west, and many people were found just after coming out of their original hiding places, so they were cleaned up.

The operation in the west used more people, Lin Dan Khan personally led 70,000 horses to divide the road straight into the Dushikou to the Datong line, but he was afraid that the reaction of the Ming army was a few miles away from the Great Wall, so it no longer went south, but rolled from east to west round by round. In the words of Lin Dan Khan himself, it was a method of cleansing learned from the Ming army, interspersed with men and horses in place to isolate and restrict the locals, the easternmost troops drove the crowd from east to west, and when a certain number of people were sent to the north, the soldiers went west to the new position to station, and waited for another group of people to sort out again.

In this way, round by round of combing and searching and rolling forward, it didn't take many days to search thousands of miles cleanly, and finally it was not until the bottom of the Yin Mountain that ♀ a sudden attack caused huge losses to the Karaqin and Tumut people, if everyone still had a certain identification with Lin Dan Khan, now everyone can be said to be completely disappointed in him. The Mongols had a strong ability to survive in the steppe, because they did not expect such a strong force to carry out a surprise attack, so many small tribes and small groups of soldiers chose to flee to preserve their strength, and when the Tumut soldiers who followed them returned, they also found many tribesmen along the way.

Lin Dan Khan's style is either not to do or to do never, he knew that the Tumuts were pursuing behind, so he sent the captured population to the north, and at the same time set up an ambush on the side of Daqingshan and the Dahei River.

However, it was said that Dalai Taiji of the Karaqin Department saw that he had been tricked, and knew that Ming Dao and Ming Gun were not opponents of Lin Dan Khan, so he had to pack up the remnants of the clan and move closer to the south, wanting to enter the side wall and temporarily survive in the Duoyan Department. Duoyanbu's speed and Dalai Taiji were originally brothers like a family, and after knowing the brother's situation, he personally came to find Wang Huazhen, the governor of Jizhou, and once again asked to open the side wall and let people in.

At this time, it was already late February, and Wang Huazhen had received an order from the imperial court that it was allowed to open the side wall and let people in, but there were two conditions, one was that the people who came in could only enter the side wall from Gubeikou to the mouth of the two rivers, and they could only inhabit and recuperate in the east of the Luan River. The border wall from Xifengkou to Lianghekou is not allowed to be crossed casually, and if you really want to come in, you must not bring weapons, because this is a demonstration area for peace.

After receiving the notice, I didn't care so much and hurriedly took Dalai Taiji in, and everyone talked about the encounter, in addition to hugging and crying, it was to count the people, and after the counting, they were surprised to find that there are no more than 20,000 people who can use the knife now. In this way, even if all the Duoyan people are gathered, they have nothing to do with the Han Division, not to mention the restrictions of the Ming army, the two discussed for a few days and decided to wait for the time being, while recuperating while looking for the Tumuts to see what happened to them now.

Just when the Mongols outside the Gubei Pass received an attack on their homes and left, the general soldier Lu Xiangsheng called Lin Dan Khan's guard captain and his thirty entourages over, seeing that some of them were still full of sick looks, Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said slowly: "I know that there are many kinds of herbs with strange effects, and ordinary people will have a fever all over their bodies as long as they drink it, as if they have a wind chill, I don't know which one you are drinking?" ”

The captain of the guard was shocked when he heard this, but on the surface, he said quietly: "I don't know what the general said, our brothers are really suffering from the wind cold and have not drunk the kind of medicine you said." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "It doesn't matter whether it's a real wind chill or a fake wind chill, what I want to tell you is that there is no one outside the Gubei Pass, and even if there are one or two, they don't pose a threat to you people." I see that all of you are in good spirits, so I will not keep you anymore, and hurry up and take the things that the emperor gave to Lin Dan Khan and go back. ”

When the captain of the guard heard this, he said: "Thank you for the general's hospitality and the gift of the Emperor Ming, and I will leave immediately." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "I have two things I want you to bring to Lin Dan Khan, one is that we don't care what he is doing now, and we are not interested in knowing what he will do, but the Mongols had better not get too close to the Great Wall." Since the Longqing Peace Conference, both of us have not had a major dispute for many years, and Lin Dan Khan cherishes the hard-won situation. The second sentence was still brought to Lin Dan Khan, telling him that the way of using soldiers is right and strange, but he didn't do it and didn't admit it, and it was okay to use it, but don't treat us as fools. ”

The captain of the guard knew that this was Lu Xiangsheng alluding to the Mongols' sneak attack on the Dalinghe outpost fort, and said in his heart that this matter has nothing to do with me, no matter how much you say, it is useless, and he said: "I must bring the general's words to the Great Khan." ”

In the Beijing Military Affairs Institute in late February, Tianqi was discussing with Sun Chengzong while looking at the news brought back from the front, and Tianqi asked: "Now that most of the Karaqin people and Duoyan people have entered the border wall, and the Tumut people have also crossed the Yellow River west to Ordos, Lin Dan Khan has grabbed so many livestock and people, I am afraid that it will not be easy to avenge the revenge of one arrow by the Daling River." Sir, what do you think we should do next? Will they personally go out to deal with the Mongols or find a way to make them fight among themselves? ”

Sun Chengzong said: "Although Lin Dan Khan robbed so many people and livestock, most of them were not really attached, and their intimacy was not as close as that of the Karaqin people and the Duoyan people. We can only wait and see and not act rashly against him, otherwise it will unite them even more, after all, we are not of the same family as them. ”

Tianqi said: "Why don't you suspend the operation in Liaodong, and let Huang Taiji withdraw his hand to contain the Han Division, lest their power become bigger and bigger?" ”

Sun Chengzong said: "Liaodong's action can't be stopped, as soon as it stops, not only the soldiers have doubts, but also those people who are dedicated to the Ming Dynasty will be disappointed, so let's wait first." ”