When Ismain arrived at the Khan King's tent in the city, he learned that the Khan assembly had begun for a while. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As a national teacher, Yi Si Ma Yin in the battle against the Ming Dynasty, from planning to dispatching troops, almost all of them were handled by him, which can be described as hard work.

Even if not to mention the credit, Yismain himself was the second person in the Tatar tribe after Dayan Khan Batu Munk, but the patriarchs of Batu Munk and the rest of the tribes obviously did not give him face, and before the arrival of his national teacher, the Khan assembly began to be held.

The king's tent was unusually lenient.

At this Khan tribe meeting, there were about sixty or seventy tribal patriarchs who came to attend, and most of them could only stand in the back row...... Only the tribes on the steppe that can independently form a team of five thousand horsemen are qualified to sit in front and talk to Batu Munk.

Although the grassland is large, although there are many tribes, but the living environment is very bad, the people are not prosperous, the more the Ming Dynasty blockaded the grassland, the more the living environment of the grassland people is compressed.

In addition, the grassland fell into civil strife in the past few years, and there were many casualties, and the tribal leaders who could sit in the front row at this time, plus Yi Si Ma Yin, there were only six people, and there was also one Yibu, but at this time, Ye Bu had already led his troops and horses to kill under Juyong Pass, and he had no time to come to attend the conference.

"The national teacher has arrived!"

Uzmain's general, Ulica, was not qualified to enter the king's tent, so he could only stay outside the king's tent and watch his patriarch enter the luxuriously decorated tent.

The tribe of Ismain belonged to the largest tribe second only to the Dayan Khan among the Tatar tribes, and the status of Ismain in the Khan Assembly was second only to the Great Khan Batu Munk.

The Mongolian steppe until the first half of Batu Munk's reign pursued a system of joint authority between the Khan and the Taishi, and the leader of Wara, who had made the Ming Dynasty hate Tumubao, was not the master of the steppe, but only the Taishi given by the Golden Family.

The Taishi does not have to be a descendant of Genghis Khan, and in the steppe, it is generally the patriarch of the largest clan to hold this position. As the co-lord of the steppe, in order to balance the relationship between the parties and make the largest tribe submit, the khan could only use the method of conferring the title of Taishi.

After Ismain entered the king's tent, everyone saluted him respectfully, except for Dayan Khan Batu Munk, who sat in the middle of the big tent, and several of Dayan Khan's sons and close generals, so there was no need to salute Ismain, and Susuha, who led Ismain to arrive, stood proudly behind Batu Munk and looked at Ismain with disdain.

Dressed in armor and a big hat, Batumunk was no longer the childish son who had been in the hands of his wife when he ascended the throne, but the de facto ruler of the Mongol tribe.

Through this attack, the Dayan tribe became the largest tribe on the grassland, and the once prosperous little prince Huo Sieve has also become a lost dog at this time, and the defeat in Ningxia Weilian, the strength of the tribe has been greatly damaged, and it is estimated that it is difficult to maintain the status of the former Mongol overlord in Monan.

Batumunk has a square face, small eyes, but a high nose bridge, even though he is only about thirty years old, he looks weathered, has a goatee, has deep wrinkles on his forehead, and has dark skin, he looks too old, like a person in his fifties in the Central Plains.

The living environment of the steppes is too harsh, and the life expectancy of people is generally short, and even a khan like Batu Munk, who holds great power and thinks that he belongs to his destiny, can hardly be more than forty years old.

For the grassland people, the age of thirty is not the beginning of the year, but the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and they may die of illness at any time.

"National teacher, it's been a long time!"

Even though Susuha, the general of Dayan Khan's army, did not respect Ismain enough, Batu Munk still maintained a minimum of courtesy towards Ismain.

As the Great Khan of all parties in the grassland, even if he is careful, he can't give the patriarch of a tribe a face in front of everyone, even if he feels that he is old and hopes to remove obstacles for his son, so he has the mind to take down Yismayin, but after all, now is the time to unite with the outside world, and it is definitely not a wise move to conflict in the Ming Dynasty.

Ismain stepped forward and saluted in front of Batumunk with his chest folded to show his respect for the Great Khan.

"National teacher, have you withdrawn from the army?"

Just as Ismain was about to go to Batu Munk to sit down on the empty cushion on his left hand side and formally attend the Khan assembly, he was questioned by someone in the king's tent.

Yisima looked around the king's tent with eagle-like eyes, and said coldly: "The soldiers and horses of our road are now at the level of Juyong, how can there ever be a defeat?" ”

At this time, the atmosphere in the king's tent was a little tense, and Yismayin saw that the patriarchs of the tribes looked at him with very strange eyes, as if something had happened before he entered the king's tent, causing him to become the target of the public.

When it comes to unanimity, the tribes of the Mongolian steppe must work together, but once it comes to the distribution of interests, the relationship between the tribes is not as harmonious as it seems on the surface.

Many of the patriarchs present, with the support of Batu Munk, wanted to stand up and question Yismain, but they were afraid that their tribe would be used as a spear by the Dayan tribe, so they spoke very cautiously, even if they were criticizing Yismain for deliberately concealing the situation on the front line, they did not dare to jump out openly and openly accuse in the name of their own tribe, but just hid in the crowd to speak, so that Yismain would not treat them as birds out of the forest.

As soon as Batumunk raised his hand, the king's tent was silent. Dayan Khan's eyes were grim, staring at Yismayin's eyes and said: "National Teacher, you once made it clear to Ben Khan that you would attack Xuanfu first, why did you change your mind halfway and send troops to Zhangjiakou Fort after besieging Xuanfu for a few days, and then return to attack Xuanfu after the Zhangjiakou Fort was broken?" ”

Everyone looked at Ismain.

Yi Si Mayin's face was a little ugly, but he still replied with a straight face: "The solidity of Xuanfu is far beyond my imagination, in the last resort, I can only fight Zhangjiakou Fort first, take down this pass, and then try to plan a new target after connecting the front and rear, this is a normal trade-off made according to the strength of the enemy and our strength and the difficulty of attacking the fortification!" ”

"Nonsense!"

Before Batu Munk could speak, Susuha took the initiative to jump out and reprimanded angrily, "It is clear that you sent troops to Tumu Fort, and you suffered too many losses in the hands of the Ming army, so you had to give up attacking Xuanfu as a last resort, and you still want to hide it from the Great Khan?" ”

At this point, no one dared to speak.

Susuha is in the Dayan Khan Department, belonging to the thousand households of the Chinese army of Batu Munke, which is equivalent to the commander of the Imperial Forest Army most trusted by the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Yismayin shouted: "Outside the civil fort, there is no defeat!" As a national teacher, Yismain clearly knew that the battle of Tumubao was a stain on him, and he could not admit that there was a defeat in any case, because it involved the final distribution of benefits.

In the steppes, the merits of the people who gave advice were almost negligible, and the Mongols calculated their exploits by how many battles they won, how many men and animals they captured, how many cities they conquered, and how many soldiers and horses they defeated.

Under this premise, the less your own loss is better.

Once there is a defeat, they will be at a disadvantage in the final distribution of results, because the loser is not eligible to distribute the results.

Although the soldiers and horses lost by Yisma in the Tumu Fort did not reach the point of breaking their muscles and bones, it also gave the Mongols a taste of defeat, and let the steppe tribes know that this battle was not without setbacks, and the inconspicuous Tumu Fort became the most solid fortress of the Ming army, and the places such as Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass and Jingshi were more likely to be unable to be captured for a long time.

Batu Munk shouted and asked: "Then may I ask the national teacher, did you deceive Ben Khan?" ”

Yismayin saluted respectfully: "Don't dare to deceive!" ”

Yismain refused to admit it, and even Batumunk didn't know how to respond.

Although the soldiers and horses of the various tribes of the steppe uniformly obeyed the dispatch of the Khan, in the raiding and siege, many of them were in their own positions, and the specific losses were only reported by the tribes themselves.

Ismaine resolutely refused to admit that there was a defeat, so naturally the losses would not be reported, and Batumunk could not produce strong evidence to confirm Ismain's defeat.

The tent suddenly fell silent, and everyone was waiting for the fierce collision between Batu Munke, the No. 1 person in the grassland, and Yismayin, the No. 2 person in the grassland.

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